Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1947 Pan Am Airways certificate signed by aviation pioneer Gilbert "Gib" Bynum Blackmore. Blackmore, piloting with Pan Am for three decades, flew the Dixie Clipper carrying the first-ever passengers in a transatlantic flight...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful and humorous circa 1950 travel/promotional poster for Central African Airways (CAA). Established in 1946, the airline evolved from a Rhodesian airlines (RANA) and communications squadron of the Rhodesian Air Force. The...

ARTIFACT: This is an early American Airlines "Admiral of the Flagship Fleet" frequent flyer appreciation certificate. John Squibb was the recipient of this certificate dated April 25, 1940. The certificate comes in its original wooden frame, and bears...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1940's - 1950's Lincoln Park (Amusement Park - Dartmouth, Massachusetts) Serving Platter in the Art Lamelle pattern, hand-painted by Buffalo China. The oval platter reads: "LINCOLN PARK" in white painted detail and the reverse reads: "ART...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old advertising thermometer in celluloid for the Portsmouth Refrigeration Service of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This thermometer was made by Dorfman Brothers of Corona, on Long Island. It displays an early type of telephone...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1958 Coca-Cola brand soda bottle from Presque Isle, Maine. The bottle is in green glass. VINTAGE: Circa 1958. SIZE: Approximately 7-3/4" in height and 2-1/4" in diameter at the base. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Glass...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1955 Coca-Cola bottle from Augusta, Maine. The bottle is in green glass. VINTAGE: Circa 1955. SIZE: Approximately 7-3/4" in height and 2-1/4" in diameter at the base. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Glass...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1951 Coca-Cola bottle from Bangor, Maine. The bottle is in green glass. VINTAGE: Circa 1951. SIZE: Approximately 7-3/4" in height and 2-1/4" in diameter at the base. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Glass...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool circa 1930s I. Schwimer Company seltzer bottle from New York, New York. The bottle has an intertwined "IS" logo on the front and a siphon marked Nathan Ozer N.Y. The bottle is heavy, and was made to hold about 26 ounces of...

ARTIFACT: Great vintage 1960’s Beverly Hilton room key and fob for room 657. The fob shows a stylized star burst-like raised detail on the front and the reverse reads: “BEVERLY HILLS/CALIFORNIA”, “THE BEVERLY HILTON”, “PLEASE DROP IN ANY MAILBOX RETURN...

ARTIFACT: Great vintage 1920’s Rockingham Hotel Portsmouth, New Hampshire room key and fob for room #1. The stamped, leather fob reads: “ROCKINGHAM HOTEL PORTSMOUTH N.H.” and above displays a hand-drawn number “1”. The reverse is stamped with a maker’s...

ARTIFACT: This is a great classic circa 1930s or 1940s "old-fashioned" or "lowball" cocktail glass for the Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1900. The main part of the green logo on the front of the glass is a W shaped from...