US Home Front, Trench Art, & Sweetheart Items

ARTIFACT: Great 1944 POW-Art hand-carved jewelry box made with walnut by an Italian prisoner of war at Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, Indiana. The jewelry box is fashioned in the shape of a book, the 'cover' shows a spread winged eagle bearing a shield...

ARTIFACT: This is a brightly colored celluloid Remember Pearl Harbor three-dimensional hat-shaped Patriotic pin. The Uncle Sam style Top Hat is suspended from a bar which reads: Remember Pearl Harbor. VINTAGE: World War II. SIZE: Approximately 2" in...

ARTIFACT: HUGE WWII United States Navy Submarine Service "V" for Victory pin from Portsmouth Navy Yard. The pin is Monel construction and displays great details of a submarine centered on the letter V, it's the largest one I've ever seen! VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a great mint World War II homefront matchbox with its original matches. The theme of the box is "V" for Victory, and the bears the slogan KEEP 'EM FLYING KEEP 'EM ROLLING. VINTAGE: Circa World War II...

ARTIFACT: Cool, early WWII United States Navy Battleship patriotic pin. The nicely detailed brass pin is in the shape of a battleship and features red, white, and blue painted detail. VINTAGE: Circa early WWII SIZE: Approximately 2-1/2" x...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1930's Jewish anti-Hitler celluloid pin. The pin shows a Star of David and reads HALT HITLER. VINTAGE: Circa 1930's. SIZE: 5/8" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Celluloid with tin backing. ATTACHMENT: Straight pin...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII Pioneer Parachute Com. Boxed double deck of playing cards by Brown & Bigelow. The front of the box and cards display the company logo, a soldier/man suspended from an open parachute and beneath him reads: "PIONEER PARACHUTE...

ARTIFACT: Fabulous wartime, 2/15/1944, Pioneer Parachute Co., Inc. catalog and price list. Extremely rare and filled with scarce reference images of WWII parachute parts and rigger's tools. The front of the catalog features a company logo showing an...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful World War I Victory bowling tournament participant badge. It is from 1918 and reads FOR THE BOYS OVER THERE on reverse. The badge is a pinback with an American flag ribbon affixed to it. VINTAGE: Circa World War I...

ARTIFACT: This is a paperback copy of "The Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942" by Stan Cohen. The book has some great photographs of many different camps and works projects from across the nation,...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1940 shoulder patch for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 2138, of Mill Creek (Hallowell Park), Colorado. The CCC was a work opportunity program created by Roosevelt's New Deal. The patch in black wool...

ARTIFACT: Scarce circa 1935 – 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal Resettlement Administration Land Utilization agent badge. The Resettlement Administration oversaw the relocation of struggling families, both in rural regions and urban areas. The families...