Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1990 commemorative badge for the 125th anniversary of the F.D.N.Y. (Fire Department of the City of New York). Now a respected entity, the first manifestation of the F.D.N.Y. garnered some resentment when it was created after the Act...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful 1890s watercolor by Cornelia "Nel" Chapin Moodey of Maine. The painting shows a wooded area in the center of which appears a fountain borne upon the heads of rearing horses. From a tag attached to the reverse of the painting...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s Maine Seacoast watercolor painting of Marginal Way in Ogunquit, a quintessential Maine village. Marginal Way is a scenic and historic cliff walk next to Perkins Cove and has been the focus of artists over the decades. The...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1900 watercolor painting of a coastal scene in Scituate, Massachusetts. The watercolor is signed by the artist and is in the original and wonderful golden frame. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 16-3/8" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1936 "lucky penny" from the famous Stork Club in New York City. The penny is a wheat penny encased within a outer ring of aluminum that reads SONNY KENDIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA DINNER-SUPPER-DANCING GUS MARTEL AND.HIS RHUMBA...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old newsboy badge from Boston, Massachusetts. The pin is oval and reads 1942 LICENSED NEWSBOY NO. 46 BOSTON. VINTAGE: Circa 1942. SIZE: 2-3/4" height and 2" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass with a plastic...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1910s Press reporter badge from the New York City Evening Sun newspaper. The New York Sun hit the streets in 1833, becoming a wildly popular newspaper almost overnight. The paper had many incarnations, one of which was the...

ARTIFACT: This is a pin for the Nubble Light, which sits on an island called the Nubble in Cape Neddick (part of York), Maine. The lighthouse was completed in 1879 and is accessed either by boat or by the ferrying bucket. Interestingly, a picture of the...

ARTIFACT: Cool vintage 1970's Ð 1980's Peter Pan Bus Lines bus stop sign. This smaller size sign is painted aluminum in the Peter Pan colors, green, white, and black. The sign reads: "PETER PAN BUS STOP" with an arrow pointing towards the viewer's left...

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 in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1939 vintage Pan American Airways travel poster by P. G. Lawler for Ecuador. The poster shows a PAA plane flying over a fabulous scene of some natives hiking against a backdrop of the Andes. VINTAGE: Circa 1939...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1980s patch for Pease Air Force Base in Newington/Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Base is no longer in operation but it continues its tradition of civil aviation dating to the 1930s. The patch shows an aircraft being refueled in flight...