Treasures Past: SOLD!!! Items

ARTIFACT: This is an old postal badge in celluloid. It reads POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT USA 5578 and shows a profile of a rider on a horse. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s. SIZE: 2-9/16" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Celluloid-wrapped tin...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1930 United States Air Mail pilot wing in rolled gold. The center of the finely detailed wing is a globe reading U.S. AIR MAIL. VINTAGE: Circa 1930. SIZE: Approximately 7/8" in height and 3-1/2" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Nashville Flying Service Air Mail lot that contains three black and white photographs (one signed on reverse by Jim Foxworth), a 1938 certificate of pilot cooperation addressed to D.T. Ford from the Postmaster General, a...

ARTIFACT: Great, classic WWII Women's Recruiting Poster, showing Army, WAC, Navy Wave, Woman Marine, and USCG Spar. Great manageable size! Two small areas of foxing on edge could easily be bleached out, or matted over. Poster read"For Your Country's...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I United States Marine Corps recruitment poster. Set off by a bold gold background, the head and shoulders of a Marine emerge beneath a caption reading E-E-E-YAH-YIP GO OVER WITH U.S. MARINES. The soldier's bayonet stretches...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II United States Navy recruitment poster asking the reader to BE A SEABEE, or a member of one of the Navy's Construction Battalions. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Approximately 8-1/8" in width by 15-3/4" in height...

ARTIFACT: This is a large (almost five feet tall!) and early promotional poster for singer Elvis Costello. The poster is in arresting shades of yellow and green and shows a close-up of the slightly paranoid-looking singer in his trademark black-rimmed...

ARTIFACT: This is a striking 1950s vintage travel poster for Odense, Denmark by Viggo Vagnby. The mother of the subject of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" really pops against a black background, while the duckling and a lady bug are more...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful, unused real photo postcard of the South Shore, Massachusetts Fire Department Engine 3 from the 1910s. Number 3 is an Ahrens-Fox engine, and is shown on the postcard accompanied by a dozen firemen. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice circa 1918 Allen Brothers Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts manufactured goods catalog. The company made many items such as signs and stamps, and also manufactured police and fire badges although this catalog only has two...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1962 pin showing the support of New York State for Nelson Rockefeller's gubernatorial bid for re-election. It is enameled in blue and is shaped like the Empire State. VINTAGE: Circa 1962. SIZE: Approximately 9/16" in height...

ARTIFACT: This is a novelty political pin for the 1972 presidential election. The pin's slogan suggests that Archie Bunker, star character of the hit television show, "All in the Family" be a candidate. VINTAGE: Circa 1972. SIZE: Approximately 7/8" in...