Banking Insurance Advertising Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Wonderful WWII vintage figural sailor bank from Seamen's Bank for Savings. The figure is a walking Merchant Marine carrying his bag over his shoulder and his bag features a slot for coins. The base of the bank is lined with cork and reads:...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful WWII vintage figural sailor bank from Seamen’s Bank for Savings. The figure is a walking sailor carrying his bag over his shoulder and his bag features a slot for coins. The base of the bank is lined with cork and reads: “THE...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful bronze letter opener advertising Pacific Mutual, an old California-based life insurance company that is now known as Pacific Life. The opener was made by Whitehead & Hoag Company of Newark, New Jersey. Its lower section is...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old advertising thermometer in celluloid for the Piscataqua Savings Bank of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Piscataqua is one of Portsmouth’s early banks and is still in operation, borrowing its name from the river flowing through...

ARTIFACT: This is a coin bank advertising the Portsmouth Trust & Guarantee Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire from the 1910's. This was one of Portsmouth's early banks. The bank is numbered 671 and has slots for all United States coins from pennies...

ARTIFACT: This is a really cool item. It's a donation tin bank from the early years of World War II. The donation campaign was for Children's Crusade for Children, which aimed to feed and clothe "Hungry and Homeless war-stricken children in other lands."...

ARTIFACT: This is a great World War II era Figural Bank of a sailor. This is for the Seaman's Bank for Savings. It was made by Contemporary Ceramics out of Chatham, New Jersey, and has some wonderful paint. The bottom is lined with cork so it doesn't get...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1953 advertising Zippo lighter for the Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Massachusetts. It has the bank official's signature factory engraved on the reverse. VINTAGE: Circa 1953 SIZE: Size: 2-3/16" x 1-1/2" x...

ARTIFACT: This is a minty circa 1920s "Vice President" sign, perhaps once used for a bank vice president's door. The rectangular sign is in brass with black painted areas. The font of the script is quite bold and unique. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s...

ARTIFACT: This is an 1893 Home Insurance Co. of New York calendar given out by John Sise Insurance of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (his stamp can be seen beneath the calendar pages). The calendar is affixed to cardboard with a printed color scene and has a...