Travel Related Artifacts & Collectibles

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...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous 1950s dinner plate from the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire. The Wentworth is a resort hotel made famous for being the spot where the Russian and Japanese signers of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty lodged...

ARTIFACT: This is a cigar/cigarette ashtray from the Coral Island Hotel in Bermuda. The hotel was formerly the Frascati and was later torn down to make way for condominiums. The ashtray is from the 1950s and is made by Bauscher Weiden. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful circa 1907 pre-Prohibition ACME Beer mini-mug from the Heidelberg Inn in San Francisco, California. The front of the mug shows a person serving up a platter and below them reads: "EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY" and surrounding reads: "THE...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful, large 1907 Jamestown Exposition Badge in high-relief, silver plated brass. The badge depicts a lovely detailed female American Indian wearing a beautiful headdress and her neck is adorned with jewelry. She sits on a log bench draped...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s room key fob for the Hotel John Marshall, once the largest hotel in Virginia. It opened in Richmond, Virginia in 1929 and took its name from the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. In its day it hosted many movie...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1900s room key fob from the grand Belvedere Hotel of Baltimore, Maryland. Opened during the 1903 holiday season, the Belvedere was a luxury establishment in the upscale Mount Vernon district. The Belvedere building...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1800s key fob for the Hotel Greif in Wels, Austria. The fob is a large brass disc and is for room 81. VINTAGE: Circa late 1800s. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Brass. ATTACHMENT: Hole...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1890's  tested 14 Karat Gold Associate Member Badge for the Alex. Hamilton Post, # 182, of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in New York City. GAR is a fraternal organization for the Union veterans of the Civil War. This...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified circa 1950s celluloid pin from Cuba. It reads "Como en Cuba" (As in Cuba) and has the design of the nation's flag. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: Approximately 1-1/4" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a guidebook to "Cantigny", the estate of Colonel Robert R. McCormick of the US Army 1st Division. Cantigny is outside of Chicago and is named for a French town where the first American offensive of World War I took place. The booklet...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s lapel pin by Greenduck Company for American Youth Hostels (AYH), a group started in 1934 in Northfield, Massachusetts. The group was modeled after the German concept from decades earlier of giving young people a pastoral...