Manufacturing Related Artifacts & Collectibles

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...

ARTIFACT: This is a guest badge for the 1910 National Association of Cotton Manufacturers' (NACM) convention. A Massachusetts-based group, NACM was known initially in 1854 as the National Textile Association and then as the New England Cotton...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful circa 1890s "Reward of Genius" medal made by C. G. Braxmar of New York. It was presented by an unscrupulous Washington, D.C. patent attorney, John Wedderburn & Company. A medallion with a scalloped border hangs from a...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful and rare WWI Era worker photo ID badge for E.A. Laboratories in Brooklyn, New York. Emanuel Aufiero, born in 1882 traveled to America from Italy in the early 1900's. He invented the first motor driven car horn with his brother at E. A...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 enameled stick pin for the National Retail Hardware Association (NRHA). The head of the stick pin is in the shape of a padlock. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 5/8" in width and 2-3/4" in height...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1940s magnetic display tool for an Otis Elevators salesman. The tool opens to reveal a selection of symbol and phrase magnets on one half and a blank magnetic board on the other. The blank side has an easel backing and...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1955 Zippo lighter advertising for Onan Electric Plants. Onan was started in 1920 by David Warren Onan in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has been based there since. Onan is still in business owned by Cummins Indiana (Cummins Onan)...

ARTIFACT: Unknown WWI era shipbuilding corporation employee badge. The nickel plated brass badge reads: "G.R.S.B. 5499 CORP'N"…the letter 'G' has a curious look and could also be a "C", the letters show remnants of black painted...