Food Restaurant Club Hotel Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1966 token or gaming coin for the Playboy Club in London, England. Soon after gambling was legalized in the United Kingdom in 1965, a Playboy Club opened in the English capital. The Playboy Bunny is on one side and a picture of...

ARTIFACT: This is a great 1930s Howard Johnson's worker badge #201-2 by Whitehead & Hoag. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: About 15/16" in width by 1-1/4" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Silver plated nickel with enamel accents. ATTACHMENT: Vertical...

ARTIFACT: This is a 3D Mr. Peanut that is also a whistle. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s-50s. SIZE: About 2-1/2" in width by 7/8" in height and about 3/8" in depth. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Early hard red plastic. ATTACHMENT: None. MARKINGS: The only marking...

ARTIFACT: This is a small informational brochure for the Hamilton Hotel in Bermuda. It looks as though it is/was a large summer resort. The pamphlet tells briefly of the charms of Bermuda and then goes on to tell the history of the Hamilton which the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1954 Zippo lighter with a factory-engraved advertisement for Meyer's Sea Food featuring a lobster. The lighter has a chromed brass case with a chromed steel insert. VINTAGE: Circa 1954. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool turtle-shaped bottle opener from the 1930s advertising Grove Grocery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Grove Grocery was a luncheonette on Sagamore Avenue that also sold sundries including beer and ale. The turtle is craning his neck...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful enameled Victorian era brooch with an image of the famous Tip-Top House on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Built as a hotel in 1853, the Tip-Top still stands today, although it is no longer a hotel. It is however the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1936 "lucky penny" from the famous Stork Club in New York City. The penny is a wheat penny encased within a outer ring of aluminum that reads SONNY KENDIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA DINNER-SUPPER-DANCING GUS MARTEL AND.HIS RHUMBA...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1961 dinner plate for the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation. Transcontinental is a natural gas transmission company with lines spanning from Texas to New York City. The logo for transcontinental may be a slightly...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s WAN-ETA cocoa jar from Boston, Massachusetts. The jar is in a scarce aqua blue color, with a glass-lined zinc screw-top lid. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 7-1/8" in height and 3-3/4" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960s or 1970s tea cup advertising the Hawaiian Garden motor inn/restaurant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. The cup has a vibrant colored scene on one side and a maker mark on the bottom. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s-1970s...

ARTIFACT: This is a "Maid Working Here" sign from the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The hotel opened in 1912 and is now has "Historic Hotels of America" status. The sign dates from the 1920s or early 1930s, and reads the same on front and...