Communications & Utilities Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a New England Telephone & Telegraph Company "Bell System" operator's service brooch. The brooch is by Balfour, and is gold-filled with a green stone at center beneath a bell in relief. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s or 1940s...

ARTIFACT: This is an old New England Telephone and Telegraph Company "Bell System" Operator service brooch for ten years of service with the company. At center is a bell in relief with two stars beneath. The badge is by Balfour, and is...

ARTIFACT: This is an early New England Telephone & Telegraph Company operator's brooch for long service with the company. The brooch is by Balfour in gold-fill, and has a pink stone under a bell in relief. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s or 1940s. SIZE: About...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s-1930s celluloid badge for the Telephone Pioneers of America, also known now as Pioneers, A Volunteer Network and Telephone Pioneers. Established in Boston in 1911, the group's first card-carrying member was Alexander...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910s New England Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Systems employee badge. The badge is enameled in cobalt blue and is numbered 1412. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: About 1-1/2" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is an early, circa 1890s Bell Systems telephone worker hat insignia. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s. SIZE: About 1" in width by 1-1/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gilt brass. ATTACHMENT: Bendable prongs. MARKINGS: None. ITEM...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s-1930s American District Telegraph Company messenger badge numbered 293 along with eighteen uniform buttons. ADT is now solely a security company. The badge has the seal of the State of Michigan at its center. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a Union Telegraph Lines Officer #4 badge from Cleveland, Ohio.. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: About 1-3/4" in width by 2-1/2" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Chrome plated nickel with black painted lettering...

ARTIFACT: This is a Los Angeles District Telegraph Company badge number 2. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: About 1-7/8" in width by 2-1/2" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel plated nickel; there may have once been black paint in the...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1870s Lynn, Massachusetts Notification Company badge (an early messenger service). The badge shows an eagle at top and a striped crest at center and reads KLYNN NOTIFICATION CO. LYNN 10. VINTAGE: Circa 1870s. SIZE: 2-5/8"...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1890s ??? early 1900s Western Union hat badge. Western Union was born in 1856, although it had been operating for five years already under the name New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. The badge has a textured...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool vintage (circa 1960) Zenith Dial-Lite AM/FM "cone-top" tabletop radio. The radio is in working order and is excellent condition! The speaker is round and projects out from the top of the radio and around a plastic cone...