Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s sheet of unused hotel stationery from the Rockingham Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Rockingham Hotel was a luxurious establishment started by larger-than-life local hero Frank Jones and which operated until 1973...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful, circa 1900 beer mug from Max & Jacques Boston Restaurant Café de la Bourse.. The mug reads: “AIN’T IT HELL TO BE POOR” along the top and beneath it reads: “CAFÉ DE LA BOURSE MAX & JACQUES BOSTON”, the bottom shows the number “10”...

ARTIFACT: Lovely circa 1907 Hotel Thorndike in Boston Massachusetts bead plate by Wedgwood. The nicely detailed plate has a center that depicts two griffin-like creatures holding a shield topped with a crown and beneath a banner reads: “HOTEL...

ARTIFACT: Lovely circa 1890’s New Victoria Hotel creamer mug by Dunn Bennett & Co. Burslem, England. Dunn & Bennet & Co. was established in 1876 and was known for selling hotel china, earthenware, and Ironstone in both England and America. The creamer...

ARTIFACT: Great 1910's - 1920's cocktail stirrer from the West Hampton Beach Country Club in Long Island, New York.  The stirrer is fashioned in the shape of a golf club and reads: "COUNTRY CLUB OF WEST HAMPTON BEACH" on either side in raised...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful 1910’s – 1920’s olive/pickle fork/drink stirrer from the Columbia restaurant in Tampa, Florida. The Columbia restaurant is the oldest in Florida, it was opened in 1905 and is still in existence today. It reads: “SNITCHED FROM...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful, minty, 1941 Portsmouth, New Hampshire Badger Farms Creameries milk bottle. The front reads: “BADGER FARMS CREAMERIES” in orange painted detail and above reads: “ONE QUART LIQUID”. The neck of the bottle shows a...

ARTIFACT: Scarce 1930’s Frank Jones Ale Bakelite and enameled brass tap knob from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. VINTAGE: Circa 1930’s SIZE: Approximately 2 1/2” x 1 ¾” CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: Bakelite, enameled brass. ATTACHMENT: ...

ARTIFACT: Rare mid-1930’s Frank Jones Ales serving tray from the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Brewery. Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century New Hampshire. The tray is round, in the...

ARTIFACT: Rare mid-1930's Frank Jones Ales serving tray from Portsmouth, NH Brewery, pre-prohibition style.  Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century New Hampshire. The tray is...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare and great pre-Prohibition (circa 1905) advertising corkscrew or bottle opener for W. Ashton Horn, a Somersworth, New Hampshire bottler and agent for the Portsmouth Brewing Company (aka the Harris and Mathes Co.). Open your ale,...

ARTIFACT: This is a minty circa 1935 tip tray for Portsmouth Ale, made by the Eldredge Brewing Company (EBC) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Eldredge Brewing Company (first known as M. Fisher Brewing Co.) was established in 1860 and was a competitor...