Foreign Postal Services Related Artifacts

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 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...

ARTIFACT: This is a postal hat badge of unknown vintage and possibly French origin. It is a wreath of laurels with the letters PTT at center, which probably stand for Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones (Postal, Telegraph and Telephone), a French...

ARTIFACT: Ca 1900 Belgian Postal Service Uniform Button by J. F.. It reads shows a lion rampant on a postal horn topped by a crown. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 7/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gilt brass. ATTACHMENT: Button...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified postal badge of an unknown vintage. It is probably either French or Belgian in origin. It reads ADMINISTRATION G'LE (Generale) DES POSTES SERVICE DE GOUVERNMENT (General Administration of the Post Service of the...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified French postal uniform button of unknown vintage. It reads DIRECTION G'ale (Generale) DES POSTES (Directorate General of Posts) and has a fleur-de-lis at its center. VINTAGE: Circa unknown. SIZE: Approximately 7/8"...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified postal federation medal, either French or Belgian in origin. The front shows a woman in an attitude of begging and the reverse reads: FEDRATION POSTALE POSTBOND 1919-1949 (Postal Federatoin). It has an E. deBraemaecker...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified Dutch Silver postal medal. The badge reads 1899-1909 16 MEI (May 16) on its front and BESTUURS PRIJS DE POST (board of postal pricing) on reverse. VINTAGE: Circa unknown. SIZE: Approximately 1-1/2" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a pre-World War I uniform button for the Belgian Ministry of Railway, Post and Telegraph (CHEMINS DE FER POSTES-TELEGRAPHES). A lion is at the center of the button along with the motto "L'Union Fait la Force". VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified postal-related French belt buckle of unknown vintage. The buckle is a pair of two discs bearing post horns that join in the middle by a two-headed serpent. There is a maker's mark on the reverse of the serpent. C'est un...