Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

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...

ARTIFACT: This is an advertising pocket ruler from Torrey, Langlands & Jacques, dealers in ales, wines and liquors from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The reverse of the folding, foot-long ruler lists the company’s address and phone number, as well as its...

ARTIFACT: This is a pre-Prohibition (before 1920) advertising bottle opener from the Frank Jones Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Frank Jones was an iconic figure, businessman and politico in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th...