Treasures Past: SOLD!!! Items

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1930s-1940s sterling silver pin for 25 years of service at the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard. The pin is diamond-shaped and shows a submarine at its center. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s-1940s. SIZE: Approximately 1/2" in height and 7/8"...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II USS Cabrilla SS-288 launch badge. Courtesy of www.hazegray.org: Cabrilla (SS-288) was launched 24 December 1942 by Portsmouth Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. L. B. Combs; commissioned 24 May 1943, Commander D. T. Hammond in...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II USS Bowfin SS-287 submarine celluloid launch button/badge. Bowfin was launched from Portsmouth Navy Yard exactly one year after the Pearl Harbor attacks, December 7, 1942, and had nine successful war patrols. Because of...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II USS Balao SS-285 submarine launch badge. Courtesy of www.hazegray.org: Balao (SS-285) was launched 27 October 1942 by Portsmouth Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. Theodore C. Aylward, wife of Lieutenant Commander Aylward,...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce circa 1942 (World War II) lost boat USS Snook SS-279 celluloid launch button/badge. Snook was launched August 15, 194Courtesy of www.hazegray.org: SNOOK was lost while conducting her ninth war patrol, in the South China Sea and...

ARTIFACT: This is a WWII Lost Boat USS Scorpion Launch button. Courtesy of www.hazegray.org: On 3 January 1944, SCORPION departed Midway on her last war patrol, heading toward the East China and Yellow Seas. On the 5th, she attempted to rendezvous with...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce circa 1941 (World War II) USS Finback SS-230 celluloid launch button/badge. Finback was launched August 25, 1941 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Portsmouth, NH/Kittery, ME). Starting her career at the Battle of Midway, Finback...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce circa 1941 (World War II) USS Drum SS-228 celluloid launch button/badge. Launched May 12, 1941 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Portsmouth, New Hampshire/Kittery, Maine), Drum earned 12 battle stars for her World War II service,...

ARTIFACT: This is an early World War II submarine launch badge for the lost boat USS Triton SS-20Triton was launched on March 25, 1940 from the Portsmouth (NH) Navy Yard. During her sixth and final war patrol, Triton was presumably ganged up on by three...

ARTIFACT: Nice, salty WWII United States Navy Submarine Combat badge in sterling silver by AMICO. Badge depicts a submarine floating in the waves with three stars below, stars were soldered in place. VINTAGE: Circa WWII SIZE: Approximately 2-1/2" x...

ARTIFACT: Nice 1930's - WWII Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Power Plant Foreman badge by Braxmar Co., in New York. The convex center depicts a spread winged eagle bearing the US Shield on its chest and clutching an anchor in its talons in nice relief detail...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII Portsmouth Navy Yard Administrative Submarine worker photo ID badge. Photograph shows employee with silhouetted submarines in background, number 124. VINTAGE: Circa WWII SIZE: 1 ¾"round CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel,...