Communications & Utilities Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1910s Press reporter badge from the New York City Evening Sun newspaper. The New York Sun hit the streets in 1833, becoming a wildly popular newspaper almost overnight. The paper had many incarnations, one of which was the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 Boston Electric Light Company employee badge #103. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: About 1-3/4" in width by 1-3/4" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel and brass. ATTACHMENT: Vertical one piece safety type pin with a...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II GE Police Department for Plant Protection patch. VINTAGE: Circa WWII. SIZE: About 3-3/16" in width by 2-5/16" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Cotton embroidery thread on cotton. ATTACHMENT: To be sewn onto...

ARTIFACT: This is an early utilities badge from Buckley & Scott Utilities Inc. VINTAGE: Circa late 1920's to early 1930's. SIZE: About 2" in length x 1-3/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Silver with black painted detail...

ARTIFACT: This great old celluloid badge is for an Air Raid Precautions Warden or Air Raid Warden working for the NE Tel. & Tel. Co. It is quite large and reads around the outer edge: NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Inside this is a large...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Quincy, Massachusetts wire inspector badge. The badge shows a hand at center grasping electricity and reads INSP. OF WIRES QUINCY. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: 2-3/8" height and 1-5/8" width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a 14 karat gold pin for forty years of service with the D. S. T. Company. The octagonal pin reads 40 DST CO TELEPHONE PIONEERS OF AMERICA and shows a bell reading BELL COMPANY within a triangle. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: 1/2"...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s Quincy, Massachusetts wire inspector badge. The badge shows a hand at center grasping electricity and reads INSPECTOR CITY OF QUINCY WIRE DEPT. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: 2-1/8" height and 1-1/4" width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1930s advertising sign for Clicquot Club brand ginger ale. The sign is in brightly painted, flexible tin and features the company's mascot, "Klee-Ko" the Eskimo, at its center. Founded in 1885 in Millis, Massachusetts,...

ARTIFACT: This is a celluloid badge for the Lynn, Massachusetts General Electric plant from the 1940 New York World's Fair. VINTAGE: Circa 1940. SIZE: About 1-3/4" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Paper, celluloid and tin. ATTACHMENT: Straight...

ARTIFACT: Nice, circa 1900's - 1910's advertising watch fob for Mergenthaler Linotype Co. in die-struck brass by The Green Duck Co in Chicago. The center of the watch fob features an elaborate, high-relief detailed image of a linotype machine. The...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified C.F.D. Fire Lines badge, possibly from Cleveland (Fire Department), the city in which it was found. The badge dates to between 1900 and 1920. It is unclear whether the "CITY COUNCIL" on the badge denoted their approval...