Communications & Utilities Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1920s or 1930s Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT & SF RY) Superintendent of Fire Alarm & Telegraph badge. The Santa Fe line was charted in 1859 to join with the already existing Atchison & Topeka. This railway...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Westinghouse Electric police badge. The badge would have been worn at Los Alamos during Westinghouse's involvement with the Manhattan Project, codename for the combined effort of the United States Army Corps of Engineers,...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s lapel wing for the Jordan Marsh-Boston Traveler Junior Aviation League (JAL). Formed in 1929 by Boston-based department store Jordan-Marsh and the Boston Traveler newspaper, the JAL was a boys' and girls' club meant to...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa Korean War era CBS-Hytron Radio and TV Tube Manufacturing Corporation worker badge. Hytron was bought out by CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Systems) in the early 1950s to become CBS-Hytron of Newburyport, Massachusetts. The blue...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II Hytron Radio Tube Manufacturing Corporation worker badge. Hytron was a company in Lawrence, Massachusetts that got bought out by CBS in the early 1950s. The oval badge shows a photo of a woman worker at center, and...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s-1940s Boston Fire Department "Fire Lines" badge for a Boston Globe reporter. The "fire line" badge functioned as a press pass at fire scenes. This one is numbered 54. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s-1940s. SIZE: Approximately 2-7/8" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1961 dinner plate for the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation. Transcontinental is a natural gas transmission company with lines spanning from Texas to New York City. The logo for transcontinental may be a slightly...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s badge for the Rescue Squad of Northern New York Utilities. The badge is numbered 3. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 2-5/16" in height and 1-1/2" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass with...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s promotional pin for "Reddy Kilowatt", the premier American mascot of electricity since 192Reddy was created by Ashton B. Collins, Sr. and was featured in different media, including a movie and a comic strip. The pin...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s American-Bosch Radio Explorers Club lapel pin. The radio market was very competitive in its early days, and the American-Bosch company came up with the Radio Explorers Club as a way to advertise the adventurer spirit...

ARTIFACT: Great 1920's Baltimore Junior fire department celluloid promotional pin given out by the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. The center of the pin features a fireman's helmet, ladder, hook, and axe and reads: "BALTIMORE JUNIOR FIRE DEPT. ORGANIZED...