Food Restaurant Club Hotel Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1934 member badge for the Dick Steel, Boy Reporter News Service Club. The Sick Steel show aired on NBC Radio for one season. The Educator Biscuit Company sponsored the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...