Travel Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a small informational brochure for the Hamilton Hotel in Bermuda. It looks as though it is/was a large summer resort. The pamphlet tells briefly of the charms of Bermuda and then goes on to tell the history of the Hamilton which the...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful New York City Civil Defense Warden Service Badge for a Deputy Sector Commander. VINTAGE: 20th Century. SIZE: Badge: 2 " in height by 1 " in width. The attached pin is 3" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold plated...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1950s New York City Fire Department pilot badge "off duty" or a 2nd. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: 2-3/8" wide by 3" high. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Silver-plated brass. ATTACHMENT: Vertical pin with "drop-in" locking catch...

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 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: 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 "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...