Food Restaurant Club Hotel Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Wonderful circa 1937 "The Skating Club of Lake Placid" member lapel pin. Lake Placid has been an area popular for skating since the early 1920's, the first formal group was called the 'Sno Birds' who organized their own competitions...

ARTIFACT: 1960's American Hotel Association Allied Member lapel pin by Robbins. The red, white, and blue enameled pin is oval shaped and the center reads: "ALLIED AHA MEMBER" and the outer blue enameled ring reads: "AMERICAN HOTEL...

ARTIFACT: This is a great 1930s china dinner plate for the Capital City Club (CCC) of Atlanta, Georgia. Organized in 1883, the CCC was a prominent Southern club and gathering place for business professionals and even three Presidents of the United States...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1908 soup bowl from the Moosehead Lake Yacht Club (MLYC) in Greenville, Maine. The bowl dates from the same year as the start of MLYC, which was initially at the Mount Kineo resort hotel and is now based out of a marine museum...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful 1936 Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man Corps radio program premium from Post Cereal. Great adjustable brass ring set in a smaller size showing just enough wear to know that it was loved for a brief while in the days prior to WWII. Beginning...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1939 Howie Wing wing badge distributed by Kellogg's. Howie Wing was a children's radio show written by a World War I flying reservist that debuted in 193The success of the show was propagated by the multitude of gimmicks and...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1990s Hard Rock Café New York guitar-shaped pin in sterling silver. The first Hard Rock Café was established in London in 1971 and became known for its musical memorabilia. The original New York location was established in 1984...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1935 USMC Devil Dogs WWI Aviation Movie Premium Ring from Quaker Oats. Devil Dogs of the Air starring Pat O'Brien and James Cagney was released in 193It was shot on location on the US Naval Base in San Diego and the Marine Attack Squadron...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1970s sign for the "all new" Market Square Pub in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The sign is painted masonite and drew in patrons at about the time when Portsmouth was on the threshold of entering its renaissance...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1940's - 1950's Lincoln Park (Amusement Park - Dartmouth, Massachusetts) Serving Platter in the Art Lamelle pattern, hand-painted by Buffalo China. The oval platter reads: "LINCOLN PARK" in white painted detail and the reverse reads: "ART...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1923 Monarch Breakfast Cocoa lithographed tin. The center depicts a lion's head and surrounding it reads: "OUR HIGHEST QUALITY TRADE MARK REGISTERED" and "MONARCH COCOA REID, MURDOCH & CO. ESTABLISHED 1853 CHCAGO, ILL. U.S.A."...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880 bottle wood mold for Moxie Nerve Food. Moxie was first marketed in 1878, sans carbonated water, as a medicine by Dr. Augustin Thompson of Union, Maine, and later as a soda. The bottle is in a pale green glass with wonderful...