Treasures Past: SOLD!!! Items

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War I War Service Ship Building foreman's badge. The center of the badge pictures one of the many merchant ships that the United States mass-produced during World War I. The badge is done in coppered brass and nickel and...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1970s lapel pin for thirty years of membership with the United Transportation Union (UTU). Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the UTU formed on the first day of 1969, consolidating four large pre-existing unions. A member's longevity...

ARTIFACT: This is a great 1930's - 1940's "VOTE INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM" celluloid badge promoting the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) over the AFL as both union federations were in competition of members between the 1930's and 1956 during their...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1900s or 1910s lapel badge for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW was organized in 1905 and its members were nicknamed the "Wobblies". The organization still exists although arguably their heyday...

ARTIFACT: Wonderfully historic club from the Lawrence Textile Strike commonly referred to as the "Bread and Roses" strike, which began on January 12, 1912 and lasted through a brutally cold winter ending March 12th of that same year. The strike...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s 15 years of service pin for Bird Machine Company of South Walpole, Massachusetts. Bird was established around the turn of the last century and initially specialized in paper manufacturing machinery. The pin is in 10 karat...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s 10 years of service pin for Bird Machine Company of South Walpole, Massachusetts. Bird was established around the turn of the last century and initially specialized in paper manufacturing machinery. The pin is in 10 karat...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s pin in enameled 14 karat gold for thirty years of service with the Hoover Vacuum Company. This company, whose brand name became a household synonym for the act of vacuuming itself, was started in North Canton, Ohio in...

ARTIFACT: This is an old Contractors Service Pass badge for a person working for the Heywood-Wakefield furniture company. VINTAGE: 1930s-40s. SIZE: 1-3/4" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Celluloid, paper, steel. ATTACHMENT: Single post with...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Era worker photo identification badge for the Farrington Manufacturing Company of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Farrington made such pieces as jewelry boxes, eyeglass cases and early credit cards. This badge originally...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s pin for five years of service with Esmond Mills, a producer of woolen goods in Esmond, Rhode Island. The pin has the company's "Bunny Esmond" logo enameled at its center. The pin is by Whitehead & Hoag ...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool circa 1930s Frigidaire factory worker (or visitor) badge. Frigidaire has been making appliances, primarily refrigerators, since 191The badge is in an Art Deco design with the Frigidaire crown symbol at the top. It was made by...