Gasoline, Oil, Auto Parts & Tire Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1940 brass advertising key chain for Goodrich Tires. It is in the shape of a 1940 Massachusetts license plate. VINTAGE: Circa 1940. SIZE: Approximately 3/4" in height and 1-15/15" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Painted brass...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1945 published history of the USS Sangamon CVE-26, originally an Esso (Standard Oil Company) tanker. Launched November 4, 1939 as Esso Trenton, the oiler was converted into an escort carrier and renamed. She served in the Pacific...

ARTIFACT: This is an early 20th century advertising lapel pin for the Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois. G & J gained their fame making Rambler Bicycles in the late 1800's, then Jeffery split off and went on to produce...

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: 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: 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: Great, rare, 1910's -1920's Socony Burner Corp. Serviceman photo ID badge by the C. C. Braxmar Co., New York. Socony Burner was part of Standard Oil Co. of New York, now Mobil. The center of the steel badge features a period photo beneath...

ARTIFACT: This is a great and rare 1930's Philgas Company worker identification badge. PhilGas was a bottled natural gas distributed by Phillips, of "Phillips 66" fame. It is numbered 110, and the company name is in a nice Art Deco script...

ARTIFACT: Great 1976 Indy 500 pit pass/badge on original issue card. The badge shows a can of Valvoline Motor Oil in the center beside a race car with the year "1976" above. The top of the badge reads: "INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY"...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1920s or 1930s Oilzum Motor Oil oil change reminder tag from a garage in Cementon, New York. The tag is in the shape of an attendant's head and is in mint condition. It comes with its original wire for hanging...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa late 1950s advertising Flexi-Disc record for Shell gasoline. The square "full-fidelity" record is 33 ?? RPM and was made by Sound-Plus. The theme song on it is called "Cars Love Shell". This is...

ARTIFACT: Great vintage 1957 Phillips 66 Gasoline commemorative ashtray for the Will Rogers Turnpike. The ashtray is in the shape of the state of Oklahoma and the center reads: "COMMEMORATING WILL ROGERS TURNPIKE 1957" in raised lettering...