Food Restaurant Club Hotel Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a Yoken's Restaurant side plate from just after their opening in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 194Yoken's was a locally famous restaurant and gift shop with an animated sign showing...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 German-made Boehms' Cafe' advertising stein from Lawrence, Massachusetts. The stein's ceramic body was done in earth tones featuring both wonderful foliage and a king...

ARTIFACT: Scarce circa 1963 vintage Portsmouth, New Hampshire Badger Creameries ½ gallon milk bottle with original "Plasti-Grip" handle. The front of the ½ gallon reads: "BADGER FARMS' CREAMERIES" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1890s-1900s mini-mug match holder from New York City's famous Marlborough Rathskeller saloon. The mug is cream-colored and reads MARLBOROUGH RATHSKELLER in red...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1969 stein from Wentworth by the Sea, a resort hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire, famous for being the spot where the Russian and Japanese signers of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce "Lucky Mr. Peanut" pin from the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York. The pin is on its original card. Mr. Peanut, the Planters' Peanuts mascot, was 33 at the time of his...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s room key fob for the Hotel John Marshall, once the largest hotel in Virginia. It opened in Richmond, Virginia in 1929 and took its name from the fourth Chief Justice...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1900s room key fob from the grand Belvedere Hotel of Baltimore, Maryland. Opened during the 1903 holiday season, the Belvedere was a luxury establishment in the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1890s inn key fob from the historic Brown Square House in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Built in 1801 by shipbuilder and merchant Moses Brown, Brown Square House is a stately...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1800s key fob for the Hotel Greif in Wels, Austria. The fob is a large brass disc and is for room 81. VINTAGE: Circa late 1800s. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a round lapel pin in enameled 10 karat gold by the Robbins Company that reads THE DURANT. It is from The Durant Hotel in Flint Michigan, from the first decade or so of the hotel's...

ARTIFACT: Great 1960's Bowl-O-Rama Portsmouth, New Hampshire 140 Club ashtray, in Mid-Century styling. The white glass ashtray shows an image of a bowling ball with a candle pin on its side below and...