Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a rare signed first edition of "Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic ??? The Flight to the South Pole" by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Byrd, a Virginia native with ties to John Rolfe and Pocahontas, was a United...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s set of three hand-carved fishing net mending tools from the coastal Maine area. Two of the tools are larger than the other, and all are made of lightweight wood with a slightly roughened texture in spots. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1893 Home Insurance Co. of New York calendar given out by John Sise Insurance of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (his stamp can be seen beneath the calendar pages). The calendar is affixed to cardboard with a printed color scene and has a...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool old advertising shopping handle from Pryor-Davis Co. Hardware & Paints of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The store's address of 36 Market Street is printed on the wooden dowel portion. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately...

ARTIFACT: This is an old shoe horn from Oren Bragdon & Son, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoe store. The store's address is stamped on the horn: 46 Market St. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 4" in length and 1-9/16" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is an old shoe horn from C. F. Duncan & Co., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoe store. The company's address is stamped on the horn: 9 Market St. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 4-3/8" in length and 1-5/8" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1890s advertising shoe buttoner from C. F. Duncan & Co., a shoe store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The company's address is listed on the reverse: 9 Market St. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s. SIZE: Approximately 5-3/16" length and...

SUBJECT: This is a Topsfield, Massachusetts Country Club lunch plate with a green rim decoration and TCC logo on white. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: About 8-3/16" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: China. ATTACHMENT: None...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950s key fob from the famous Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada. The combined hotel/casino opened in the summer of 1946, and is one of the oldest establishments of its kind in Las Vegas, as well as the largest...

ARTIFACT: This is a serving utensil from the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire, made famous by being the spot where the Russian and Japanese signers of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty lodged in 1905. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s-1930s. ...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1900's Hotel Nizza Wiesbaden room key and fob for room number twenty-four. Hotel Nizza was located at 28 Frankfurter, Strasse and faced the Augusta Victoria Bath in Wiesbaden City. The luxury hotel had sixty rooms and nearly every...

SUBJECT: This is a post-Prohibition pressed board sign from the Frank Jones Brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th century New Hampshire. The...