US Home Front, Trench Art, & Sweetheart Items

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered World War I United States Boys' Working Reserve badge. According to an old Indiana Board of Education booklet, the reserve was an "enrolled army of patriotic volunteer youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years,...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful World War I silver level worker badge for the United States Government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Production of nitrate began within a few weeks of the end of World War I. There were three levels for this...

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered World War I United States aircraft factory worker badge by Whitehead & Hoag. The pin reads AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIAL SERVICE US ARMY NAVY and shows a propeller at center. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 5/8" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a great World War II laboratory technician identification badge for MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Work in the lab took place from October 1940 through December 1945 under the umbrella of the National Defense Research...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II United States Maritime Commission badge. The badge is round and reads WALSH-KAISER COMPANIES INC. UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION 115. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: 2" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Tin...

ARTIFACT: This is an unusual numbered United States Ship Building patriotic pin. The pin reads SHIP BUILDING OUR ANSWER TO HITLER WAR SERVICE and shows a ship at center sailing on an ocean of blue enamel. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: 7/8"...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I badge for the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen. The "Four L" formed in 1917 as a measure to preserve the wood supply crucial to the war effort from hindrances caused by labor strikes. The badge shows a forest scene...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare gold-front high-level contributor lapel pin for the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen (LLLL) from World War I. The "Four L" formed in 1917 as a measure to preserve the wood supply crucial to the war effort from hindrances...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful and rare ELCO PT Boats war worker enameled lapel pin. The pin reads ELCO NATIONAL DEFENSE WORKER and shows a Mosquito riding a Torpedo over the waves at center along with a V. The Morse Code for V is at the top of the pin...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I War Worker award badge for ship building. A bar at the top of the badge reads WAR WORKER, and the medallion reads E. PLURBUS UNUM and SHIP BUILDING and shows a man at a forge and an eagle grasping arrows. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce, numbered World War I War Worker badge for turbine engines. The badge shows a man in overalls with mechanic's tools and an eagle. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 7/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa Korean War era CBS-Hytron Radio and TV Tube Manufacturing Corporation worker badge. Hytron was bought out by CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Systems) in the early 1950s to become CBS-Hytron of Newburyport, Massachusetts. The blue...