Food Restaurant Club Hotel Advertising Artifacts

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...

ARTIFACT: This is a delicate and beautiful Welch's Grape Juice souvenir glass form the company's pavilion at the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition. The Expo was held in Portland, Oregon to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the duo's historic westward...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s or 1930s room key fob or tag for the Alexander Young Hotel in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (T.H.). The Young Hotel was a grand affair, built in 1902 by a Scotsman of the same name. The hotel was used by the military...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s pin for the Yellowstone Park Hotels. Many hotels were set up within Yellowstone, the world's first national park, which was christened in 187The design of the pin, which features a black bear within a blue circle, looks to...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s promotional pin for Golden Shred, a preserve made in the United Kingdom by James Robertson & Sons. The Golden Shred mascot debuted around the turn of the twentieth century, and was named the "Gollywog" (later just...

ARTIFACT: This is a gorgeously colored trolley card from the 1930s advertising Sunkist lemons from California. Trolley cards were used as a means of advertising mostly in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s. This card shows lemons from all angles...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare first type Sunkist juice reamer from the 1920s. The round well where the juice is collected reads SUNKIST ORANGES-LEMONS and there is a handle and a spout on either side of the main body. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1890s embossed twelve-sided bottle for A. L. Murdock's Liquid Food with its original cork inside. Murdock's was used among other applications for feeding patient prior to surgery. The bottle reads A. L. MURDOCK LIQUID...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful twenty-five years of service pin for Nestles Chocolate. The pin reads NESTLE'S QUARTER CENTURY CLUB and has a great scene in relief at center of a mother bird feeding her nestlings. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...