Public Private & Military School Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II homefront United States High School Victory Corps Auxiliary VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) pin. The Victory Corps was instituted in 1942 and participation by teenagers was meant to ready them for wartime service. The pin...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s Student Patrol badge for the Belleville, New Jersey schools. The badge is enameled in blue with a student patrol member holding the hand of a smaller child. It is by E. R. Company. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of "St. Paul's School in the Great War", published in 1926 by the St. Paul's School Alumni Association. St. Paul's is a Concord, New Hampshire preparatory school that was established in 185The book presents...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful 1915 Chicago Musical College Silver Meriut / Merit Medal awarded to Nellie B. Larkin in 7th grade for piano. The lovely engraved medal is sterling silver with gold-filled or 10K gold monogram logo of a harp and the letters "CCM"...

ARTIFACT: Lovely circa 1915 Gloucester, MA School Department Sawyer Medal for Scholarship and Conduct, gold filled. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Sawyer is Gloucester's greatest benefactor and philanthropist, the city's own Andrew Carnegie...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1910s "Boston pin" penmanship award lapel pin from Boston, Massachusetts schools. The pin was given to students who had completed one hundred penmanship drills. For completion of only 50 drills a "Boston button" incentive...

ARTIFACT: This is an old newsboy's license badge issued by the New Bedford, Massachusetts School Department. The badge is numbered on the front and has a C.D. Reese of New York maker mark on reverse. It dates from the 1920s or 1930s. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1880s-1890s Elkhorn, Manitoba Indian Home brass button. Opened in 1888, the Washakada Indian Home at Elkhorn was a boarding school for aboriginal students, spearheaded by Reverend Edward Francis Wilson. Wilson was an Anglican...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1966 US Air Force Academy Class/Sweetheart Pin. VINTAGE: Circa 1966. SIZE: About 3/8" in width by 1" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: 10K gold-filled and silver. ATTACHMENT: Vertical pin with a "come-under" locking catch...

ARTIFACT: Cool 1940's or 1950's public school DuPont "DYNAMITERS" sports team badge from Wilmington, Delaware. The painted wood badge shows a stick of lit dynamite in the center and surrounding it reads: "DYNAMITERS P.S. duPONT" VINTAGE: Circa 1940's or...

ARTIFACT: 1952 pint milk bottle from Mount Hermon Boy’s School, scarce institutional bottle. The Mt. Hermon Boy’s School is now Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) and is located in Gill, Massachusetts. Originally founded in 1881, the school aimed at...

ARTIFACT: This is a really cool item. It's a donation tin bank from the early years of World War II. The donation campaign was for Children's Crusade for Children, which aimed to feed and clothe "Hungry and Homeless war-stricken children in other lands."...