Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1918 New Hampshire Fish & Game licensed guide badge. VINTAGE: Circa 1918. SIZE: 1-1/2" wide by 1-3/8" high. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Brass with enamel details. ATTACHMENT: Horizontal pin with a "c" catch. MARKINGS: Whitehead &...

ARTIFACT: This is an old shoe horn from Fulis Bros., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoe store. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: Approximately 4-1/16" in length and 1-9/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Steel. ATTACHMENT: Hole. ITEM NOTES: This is...

ARTIFACT: This is an old Leominster, Massachusetts "Hudson Parer Company" cast iron apple peeler patented in 188The peeler has a crank handle that manipulates two gears attached to a three-pronged spindle onto which the apple goes. Another gear turns a...

ARTIFACT: Rare circa 1900 Portsmouth, New Hampshire "Blob Top" bottle of bottler J. Sacco, Market Street. The center of the bottle reads: "J. SACCO 110 MARKET ST. PORTSMOUTH, N. H." above it reads: "REGISTERED" and the base of the bottle reads: "THIS...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1910 Dr. Swett's Root Beer bottle. Dr. Swett' owned pharmacies in both Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York, and sold his root beer there as a fountain drink and in other formats to other vendors. The bottle is in...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old circa 1900 seltzer bottle from A. (Andrew) O. Caswell, Bottler, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The bottle is glass with a frosted Caswell insignia covering one side, and is topped by a metal pump-style siphon with clear straw...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1890s A. O. Caswell soda bottle from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The bottle has a great red and white ceramic stopper cap and reads THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD on the reverse. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s. SIZE: Approximately 9-7/8" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s WAN-ETA cocoa jar from Boston, Massachusetts. The jar is in a scarce aqua blue color, with a glass-lined zinc screw-top lid. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 7-1/8" in height and 3-3/4" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1960s or 1970s tea cup advertising the Hawaiian Garden motor inn/restaurant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. The cup has a vibrant colored scene on one side and a maker mark on the bottom. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s-1970s...

ARTIFACT: This is a "Maid Working Here" sign from the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The hotel opened in 1912 and is now has "Historic Hotels of America" status. The sign dates from the 1920s or early 1930s, and reads the same on front and...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s or 1930s room key fob or tag for the Alexander Young Hotel in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (T.H.). The Young Hotel was a grand affair, built in 1902 by a Scotsman of the same name. The hotel was used by the military...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s pin for the Yellowstone Park Hotels. Many hotels were set up within Yellowstone, the world's first national park, which was christened in 187The design of the pin, which features a black bear within a blue circle, looks to...