WWII Period

ARTIFACT: This is a 1941 "Bugle Notes", the U.S.M.A. US Military Academy West Point handbook for United States Army Cadets. This one has an inscription from Don to Bob, a soon-to-be cadet. The pocket-sized handbook contains vital information on customs,...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1939 "Bugle Notes", the U.S.M.A. West Point handbook for United States Army cadets. The pocket-sized handbook contains vital information on customs, honor and "songs and yells" to name a few of topics, as well as some black and white...

ARTIFACT: Small paper lot of WWI 151st Field Artillery Brigade Soldier L. Roy Mann, father of Eliot T. Mann, Tech Sergeant 319th Depot Repair Squadron, USAAF, 15th AF. The lot contains a handful of candid period photos, wartime postcards, and other paper...

ARTIFACT: Nice WWII United States Army Airborne Artillery jacket patch from training at Fort Benning in Georgia. The center of the patch shows an open parachute and strings and surrounding it reads: UNITED STATES PARATROOPERS in white embroidered detail...

ARTIFACT: Rare WWII anti-Hitler figural heel-shaped ashtray that reads: "JAM YOUR CIGARETTE BUTTS ON THIS HEEL" and depicts an open-mouthed caricature of Hitler at the center. The ashtray was made of Wartime Shortage material: cast aluminum - tar and...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Camp Fire Girls "victory garden" shoulder patch. Founded in 1910 in New England, the Camp Fire Girls were the original sister organization to the Boy Scout of America. The shield-shaped patch is still attached to a blue...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1941 photo postcard of a united States Air Corps Lockheed P-38 aircraft, the "Fastest Fighting Airplane in the World". The postcard is unused. VINTAGE: Circa 1941. SIZE: Approximately 5-3/8" in length and 3-7/16" in...

ARTIFACT: Rare, late 1930's - early 1940's Anti - Japan pin. The center of the pin red, white, and purple celluloid pin shows a bomb dropping and surrounding it reads: "BOYCOTT JAPAN STOP THE AGGRESSOR". Most likely Chinese - made for United States...

ARTIFACT: This is a great Old West circa 1900 "stock" City Marshal six-point star badge. This badge was made by C.D. Reese of New York and has a small horizontal six point star at its center. The badge has a great "been there" look, and some...

ARTIFACT: What we have here is an Iconic 1880's - 1890's small Posse size "Stock" Deputy Sheriff badge. The circle star badge is a nice diminutive, but beautiful badge you might have expected to see on the lapel of a Deputy's Duster as he rode out in a...

ARTIFACT: This is THE Chief' badge of "America's Sherlock Holmes": William J. Burns, of his agency: the William J. Burns Detective Agency. Burns became a national figure between working for the Secret Service, the Bureau of Investigation, heading up...

ARTIFACT: Early WWII era San Francisco, California Special Police badge from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation (Bethlehem Steel Company). The large, convex six point star shaped badge shows the number: "95" in the center and surrounding it reads: "SAN...