Manufacturing, Mining, & Union Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Great, rare, 1910's -1920's Socony Burner Corp. Serviceman photo ID badge by the C. C. Braxmar Co., New York. Socony Burner was part of Standard Oil Co. of New York, now Mobil. The center of the steel badge features a period photo beneath...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War I worker identification badge for Carbide Tool Company of Chicago, Illinois. The badge is numbered 482 and was made by Greenduck Company. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 1-11/16" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1920's – 1930's Otis Elevator Service employee badge in enameled and nickeled brass. The center shows a globe in embossed detail and reads: "OTIS" through the center in blue enamel. The outer edge reads: "ELEVATOR SERVICE"...

ARTIFACT: Nice WWI Baltimore Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. employee badge. The shield shaped, nickeled brass worker's badge reads: "B.D.D. & S.B.Co." along the top and "EMPLOYEE" at the bottom in embossed letters. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered World War I Connecticut State Council of Defense agricultural volunteer badge. The badge is oval and shows the Connecticut state seal at center. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 1-3/4" in height and 2-9/16"...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s DGB, or Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Confederation of German Trade Unions) May Day celebration stick pin. The pin has painted details in robin's egg-blue. VINTAGE: Circa 193os. SIZE: Approximately 1-7/16" in height...

ARTIFACT: Rare WWII Junkers Flugzeuge U(nd) Motorenwerke A.G. tool or part tag in painted, wartime zinc. The tag shows the number: "244" stamped in the center with black painted detail and below the letter: "F" in raised detail. The outer edge reads:...

ARTIFACT: Scarce 1920's Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd. numbered worker badge by JR Gaunt. The round, nickel-plated brass badge shows the entwined letters: "B A Co. LTD." in raised detail and the reverse shows the number: "7122" and...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1857 California gold dollar that was fashioned into a stickpin sometime in the 1870s or 1880s. The dollar is in high karat gold and the pin is in gold-plated nickel. The front of the dollar, which measures only 7/16" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910s member lapel pin for the International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers' Union. This lapel pin has a great candlestick telephone at its center. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 1/2" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare first edition of "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan" by Thomas Dixon Jr. The bookplate is from the New Hampshire summer home of John J. Glessner, famed industrialist. Glessner, a Midwest native, invested in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1892 United States Department of Agriculture Forestry Division Bulletin Number The document is entitled "Timber Physics: Part I Preliminary Report". The booklet is in a large format. VINTAGE: Circa 1892. SIZE: 57...