US Home Front, Trench Art, & Sweetheart Items

ARTIFACT: 1960's Maplewood, Minnesota Civil Defense Volunteer Badge #37 with a nice convex enamel 'CD' shield. Around the center of the badge it reads: "CIVIL DEFENSE MAPLEWOOD", an eagle tops the badge with his wings spread and just below it...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s Broome County, New York Civil Defense (or air raid) warden badge. This imposing badge is shield-shaped and on the larger side, and is numbered 21Broome County is in central southern New York and borders on...

ARTIFACT: Great 1940's, Cold War Era, Civil Defense Badge from Lebanon, Illinois made by S. G. Adams Co. in St. Louis. The badge is round, with a perched eagle on top, the center features a painted red, white, and blue civil defense logo and letters with...

ARTIFACT: Nice Cold War, 1940's – early 1950's Civil Defense Police badge from Wilmington, Delaware. The chrome plated, nickel badge is round, topped with an eagle and reads: "CIVIL DEFENSE POLICE WILMINGTON, DEL." in stamped, painted detail...

ARTIFACT: Great Cold War Era Civil Defense Staff celluloid arm badge for New York. The white celluloid badge shows a blue circle with a white triangle in the center bearing the letters: "CD" and above reads: "STAFF" and below:...

ARTIFACT: Great Cold War Era Civil Defense Air Warden celluloid arm badge for New York. The white celluloid badge shows a blue circle with a white triangle in the center bearing the letters: "CD" and above reads: "AIR WARDEN" and...

ARTIFACT: Great Cold War Era Civil Defense Auxiliary Police celluloid arm badge for New York. The white celluloid badge shows a blue circle with a white triangle in the center bearing the letters: "CD" and above reads: "AUXILIARY...

ARTIFACT: Cold War, late 1940's - early 1950's Sonoma County, California Civil Defense Auxiliary Police badge from Petaluma. The ball-tipped star shaped badge reads: "SONOMA COUNTY C. D. AUX. POLICE PETALUMA" and is numbered "59". VINTAGE: Circa late...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1950s Civil Defense Auxiliary Police from Nashua, New Hampshire. It is embroidered on blue twill. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: Approximately 3-1/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Twill embroidered in cotton/polyester...

ARTIFACT: WWII Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania women's volunteer organization badge: Memorial Gold Cross First Aid and Ambulance Corps which saw upwards of 2,000 members during the war. The round red, white, and blue enameled badge reads: "MEMORIAL GOLD...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1941 "Protection Against Gas" booklet from the Office of Civilian Defense. It is named to Corporal Nettie Bunker of the Massachusetts Women's Defense Corps (MWDC), a wartime volunteer organization providing emergency...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II "For Service" lapel badge for the Russian War Relief (RWR). A controversial group in the eyes of the FBI, the group had Fred Myers as their Executive Director, future founder of the Humane Society of the United...