Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

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...

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...