Radio Communications Related Artifacts

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 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: 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 an unidentified lapel wing in sterling silver that reads WIP AC on a shield at the wing's center. WIP was an early Philadelphia radio station, so the pin could be for a WIP Aviation Club or the like. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1930s Van Dam 'Round the World Club flier member celluloid badge. The 'Round the World Club was based at W-O-O-D radio station in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The badge is by St. Louis Button Company Manufacturers and was given...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s lapel pin for the Boston-based "Big Brother Club" radio show on WEEI hosted by Bob Emery. Emery had been "Big Brother" on WGI, but was wooed by WEEI, a new and financially stable station run by Edison...

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...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s Radio League of America lapel pin. The pin is enameled vividly in blue, white and orange and shows a radio tower at center. Founded in 1915 by Hugo Gersnback, The Radio League of America aimed to promote the art of amateur...