US Home Front, Trench Art, & Sweetheart Items

ARTIFACT: This is an early World War II worker identification badge for the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine. The sleepy little community of South Portland underwent a sea change with the advent of World War II: two...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful WWII 'V for Victory' Homefront production pin with a great logo of an unknown company in sterling. The logo is a blue enameled circle showing a red letter "H" with an arrow through the center and along the top reads: "PRODUCTION" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Convair (Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft) at San Diego roving worker badge pass to gain access to all area shops. Consolidated was formed in 1923 and soon gained fame for its production of flying boats (seaplanes). In 1943...

ARTIFACT: This is a unique World War II aircraft company worker badge by Whitehead and Hoag of Newark, New Jersey. The badge certifies that the wearer is a Grade A acetylene welder, and is stamped with the "Army-Navy" government inspector's...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II employee photo identification badge for Fitzimmons General Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Fitzsimmons had first existed during World War I, but was reconstructed as an Army medical facility under the Works Project...

ARTIFACT: This is a great World War II special deputy sheriff badge for a factory guard at the Simmons Company New Jersey branch. Simmons Company produced parachutes, bazooka rounds and other materiel during the war. The badge is numbered 7, and shows...

ARTIFACT: 1920's -30's General Electric (GE) River Works photo ID badge. River Works is located along the Saugus River in Lynn, Massachusetts and was formerly known as Airport Plant 2Built in 1943, the factory worked on the first jet engine during WWII,...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool circa World War II United States Rubber Company plant police/guard photo identification badge. The company started in 1892 in Naugatuck, Connecticut as a consolidation of several smaller outfits. The badge was for the company's...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1942 Kansas Ordnance Plant (KOP) "regular" worker lapel pin. The KOP was constructed on land purchased from farmers by the government in 194The pin shows a flaming bomb and is by Greenduck Company of Chicago...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa employee badge for the Hercules Powder Company of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Hercules was formed in 1912 by a man with a mythically fitting name: T.W. Bacchus. The badge is oval and is numbered 652 with a New Orleans,...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice circa World War II worker photo identification badge for the General Electric Company River Works location in Lynn, Massachusetts. River Works is where the first United States-produced jet engine was born in 194The badge is by...

ARTIFACT: This is a WWII Union Tank Car Company Employee Badge #288. VINTAGE: Circa WWII. SIZE: About 2-1/4" in width by 1-3/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel with black painted lettering. ATTACHMENT: Horizontal one-piece safety type pin...