Fire Fighting & Rescue Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I Boston Naval Shipyard Fire badge. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: 2-1/4" wide by 2-1/4" high. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel. ATTACHMENT: Single screw post and stabilizing pin. MARKINGS: None. ITEM NOTES: This is...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Paris Fire Brigade badge showing the city's coat of arms and a medal of honor at the bottom. The motto "Sapeurs Pompiers, Sauver ou Perir..." means "firefighters, rescue or perish..." VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: About 1-3/16"...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II member badge for the Edw. G. Budd Manufacturing Company Fire Brigade. Budd built wheels and truck bodies as well as the RB-1 transport airplane for the United States Navy. The badge is numbered on reverse. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a Japanese fireman's axe/hook from the Edo period, also known as a "tomiguchi". The blade is triangular and used as a pick. The long oaken handle is ringed at intervals with steel, reinforced with rods of the same, and capped off at the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s fiberglass fire helmet bearing the letters PMFD (possibly for Point Mugu Fire Department). The original owner of this helmet served in the United States Navy during World War II, so the potential for this helmet to be from...

ARTIFACT: This is a great whimsical lamp made from a circa 1930s or 1940s red alarm box (it was converted in the 1970s). The burlap lamp shade has a great large applied cloth fire engine! This is in wonderful condition and still works. There is a switch...

ARTIFACT: This is a great fire mark from the Home Insurance Company of New Haven, Connecticut. The oval mark is in cast iron and shows a fireman pointing the way to the endangered property. Fire marks were purchased from fire fighting companies by...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 fireman's parade belt hanging fixture in wonderful condition. The hanger shows a great image in relief of a fireman rescuing a small child, and is narrow and tall with a scalloped edge on either side of the fireman...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare Boxer Rebellion era fire pass for the Shanghai Fire Brigade, and possibly the only one extant. The Boxer Rebellion afflicted China from 1898 through 1901, ushering in atrocities and acts of aggression perpetrated by...

ARTIFACT: This is a presentation grade fire axe from the nineteenth century. The handle is oaken, with a number 2 at the neck and a brass cap at its other end. VINTAGE: Circa nineteenth century. SIZE: Approximately 10" in width (at blade) and 35" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1930s fireman's dress visor hat from the Plymouth, Massachusetts Fire Department. The hat is a size 7-3/It bears a department badge and has a Wentworth Forman Co. Inc. of Boston maker's mark in the lining of the hat...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1920s wooden directional sign reading TO FIRE ALARM. The paint on the red arrow has a lot of excellent crackling and character. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 3-1/8" in height and 13" in length. CONSTRUCTION...