Automobile, Racing, Gasoline & Oil Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s automobile badge for the County Commissioner of Hampden County, Massachusetts, in the western part of the state. As of 1998, Hampden County no longer uses any county-level government. The auto badge is in painted cast...

ARTIFACT: This is a great 1915 State of Maine Motor Vehicle Laws booklet in mint condition. The 28 page pocket-sized booklet was compiled under the direction of the Secretary of State and published by Sentinel Publishing Company of Waterville, Maine. It...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930's Soviet Russian Auto Enthusiast badge. The badge is nicely enameled, and shows a red triangle bearing the hammer and sickle along with Roman numeral I. There is a classic old automobile in the foreground. The badge's...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1970 Dodge Scat Pack promotional muscle car lighter by Park. The lighter shows an image of a racing bug wearing a helmet and racing goggles and has big muscle car tires and appears to be doing a 'burn out' with smoke details...

ARTIFACT: Great vintage early 1960's Volkswagen advertising lighter, made in Japan for Price Associates in Springfield, Massachusetts. The lighter features a brushed finish and a blue, enamel "VW" logo in the center. The underside of the...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool circa mid-1950s advertising lighter for "Red" Crow's Auto Sales of Glendale, California. The lighter is a Ronson copy made by Firefly of Japan with a retractable windshield. The front of the lighter has a great old...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa mid- to late 1950s advertising lighter for Parts Rebuilders Inc., an authorized Ford reconditioner. The lighter is made by Libertylite of Japan sold out of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The front has an award ribbon logo with...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool old presentation lighter for twenty-five years of service with Everett Avenue Auto Parts of Chelsea, Massachusetts, which is still in business today. The lighter is engraved with the year 1949 and presented to Abraham Rubin...

ARTIFACT: Great 1930's Texaco Oil Company Shipping Fleet Captain hat badge. The badge shows a nicely embroidered company flag logo in silk with a bullion wreath embellishment surrounding it and reads: "CAPTAIN" across the top in bullion detail. The...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare sterling silver 1943 United States Merchant Marine Union "Torpedoed" lapel pin. The pin reads SMEA 1943 and shows a torpedo at the center. The SMEA was the Sun Marine Employees' Association, the association for the...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous leaded tin oil can with a paper label for "Illuminating Spermoline Cycle Oil" by the Chicago Tip & Tire Company. Spermoline was made of whale oil, and this product was used for fueling lantern-type bicycle lamps...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful 1930's BMW Motorcycles stick pin in gilt and enameled brass. The pin shows the Bavarian Motor Werks emblem, a blue and white disc surrounded by a black outer ring that reads: "BMW" VINTAGE: Circa 1930's SIZE: Approximately...