Postal & Communications Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Nashville Flying Service Air Mail lot that contains three black and white photographs (one signed on reverse by Jim Foxworth), a 1938 certificate of pilot cooperation addressed to D.T. Ford from the Postmaster General, a...

ARTIFACT: This is a postal cover in memory of the US Navy Airship USS Macon, mailed from Moffett Field, California on February 12, 1936 to a Miss Estelle Hyer of Sequim, Washington. The postal cover has two 1-1/2 cent stamps and bears the name Dudley...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified Belgian inaugural medal from 190The front reads STAD ST. NICOLAAS (City of St. Nicholas) and the reverse reads Inhuldiging van Het Nieuw Postkantoor (Inauguration of the new Post Offices) 1903. VINTAGE: Circa 1903...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified ArmŽe Franaise TrŽsor et Poste (French Army Treasury and Post Office) badge by Alexis Godillot. The badge shows an eagle with a rooster's head, a symbol popular after the fall of Napoleon through the Second Republic...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified Austrian postal badge. The badge is a brass post horn with a 24 at the center of the tube. VINTAGE: Circa unknown. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/8" in height and 2-1/4" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Plated brass...

ARTIFACT: This is a Rare circa 1900 Austrian Postal Badge. The badge is a double-headed eagle bearing the letters FJI (for Franz Joseph I) with a post horn hanging from the bottom. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 2-3/4" in height and 1-13/16"...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare World War I Service medal presented by the Boston, Massachusetts Postal Service. The medal has a bar reading FOR SERVICE from which hangs a red, white and blue striped ribbon and a medallion reading VICTORY. VINTAGE: Circa World...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare World War I Service medal presented by the Boston, Massachusetts Postal Service. The medal has a bar reading FOR SERVICE from which hangs a red, white and blue striped ribbon and a medallion reading VICTORY. VINTAGE: Circa World...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 Railroad mail handler badge from Chicago Union Station, which was a large, independent mail handling center in Chicago. The badge reads C.U.S. 1589 MAIL. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 1-3/4" diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s New York Central Mail Service celluloid badge. The New York Central Mail Service ran on an early line which was important in connecting the East Coast with interior of the United States. The badge is an orange rectangle...

ARTIFACT: This is a large unidentified postal badge of an unknown vintage. The badge is a postal horn topped by a crown. VINTAGE: Circa unknown. SIZE: Approximately 3-3/16" in height and in 4-1/16" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Brass...

ARTIFACT: This is a European Postal Hat Badge, possibly Belgian. The badge is a postal horn topped by a crown. VINTAGE: Circa unknown. SIZE: Approximately 1-13/16" in height and in 2-1/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Silver-plated nickel or...