Manufacturing, Mining, & Union Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is an old Contractors Service Pass badge for a person working for the Heywood-Wakefield furniture company. VINTAGE: 1930s-40s. SIZE: 1-3/4" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Celluloid, paper, steel. ATTACHMENT: Single post with...

ARTIFACT: This is a five years of service pin given out by the Continental Can Company in the 1940s. The pin is sterling silver and has red, white and blue enamel showing three concentric "C"s at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s. SIZE: 5/8"...

ARTIFACT: 1940's Hartford Special Machinery Co. 5 year service pin in sterling silver. The round pin features a center that depicts the company's letter logo: "HSM" and surrounding is a blue enameled ring that reads: "THE HARTFORD SPECIAL...

ARTIFACT: Great vintage 1920's - 1930's Brass Social Security Card of Harry Inden. The card shows an eagle soaring in the center of two large letters "S" and below it reads: "AS REGISTERED WITH THE U. S. GOVERNMENT SOCIAL SECURITY NO. 099-09-7719 HARRY...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s pin for five years of service with Esmond Mills, a producer of woolen goods in Esmond, Rhode Island. The pin has the company's "Bunny Esmond" logo enameled at its center. The pin is by Whitehead & Hoag ...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s worker badge for Elisco (Elyria Iron & Steel Company) in Cleveland, Ohio. Elisco manufactured steel tubing for both automobile and railroad applications, and was making their product at least as early as 191The badge is...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool circa 1930s Frigidaire factory worker (or visitor) badge. Frigidaire has been making appliances, primarily refrigerators, since 191The badge is in an Art Deco design with the Frigidaire crown symbol at the top. It was made by...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful 1930's Yale Lock Co. 20 Year Service pin in 10K gold by Whitehead & Hoag. The center of the pin depicts an hourglass with wings and just above it a blue enamel bar reads: "YALE". The outer edge red enameled ring reads: "20 YEARS...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1930s pin in enameled 14 karat gold for twenty-five years of service with the Hoover Vacuum Company. This company, whose brand name became a household synonym for the act of vacuuming itself, was started in North Canton,...

ARTIFACT: Mid-late 1920's AETNA Steel Products Corporation worker ID badge from Chicago, Illinois. The badge, made by Whitehead & Hoag Co. in New Jersey is oval shaped and reads: "AETNA STEEL PROD. CORP" and shows the number "31" in...

ARTIFACT: Gorgeous early 1930's Sandusky Cement Co. Safety Committee Member badge in gold fill and enamel. The cement company was located in Erie County, Ohio along the Sandusky Bay. It was originally named the Sandusky Portland Cement Company,...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old Bucyrus Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, steam shovel watch fob. Bucyrus is still in business today as Bucyrus International, Inc., and is a manufacturer of Draglines, Drills and Shovels for the surface mining...