Motorcycle & Bicycle Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s advertising thermometer for Frank Morris Harley Davidson Motorcycles of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (the "Home of Frank's Riders"). The thermometer is meant to be mounted on a wall, is framed in brass and shows a peaceful mountain...

ARTIFACT: This is a late 1950s copper belt buckle for the Harley-Davison Sportster motorcycle. The buckle shows the cycle that has been manufactured ever since 1957 in relief at its center. Incredibly enough, the legend that is Harley-Davidson started in...

ARTIFACT: This is a pair of circa 1920s or early 1930s aviator's or motorcyclist's goggles. They are tinted in an orange hue for enhanced vision. These goggles sport a handsome reddish leather with cut-out details and even have a stylish herringbone...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce sport shirt patch for the NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps), or the German National Socialist Motor Corps. A Nazi Party organization, the NSKK was organized primarily for the education of both automobile and...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful sterling silver badge from the New York City Firemen's Cycle Club Century Run, a one hundred mile race. Badge is a medallion hanging from a banner beneath a bar with a pair of wings at top. Badge reads OAKDALE & RETURN MAY...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1980s Blue Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club patch. The patch is fully embroidered and shows a knight riding a motorcycle across the globe at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1980s. SIZE: Approximately 2-15/16" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful and unique 1945 Municipal Motorcycle Officers of California MMOC Director's lapel badge. The unmarked gold-fill on sterling silver badge is named to O. W. Nolton in hard-fired blue enamel. MMOC has been around...

ARTIFACT: Rare, vintage late 1940's biker "Get Back" whip in braided leather with heavy lead loaded handle and quick release grip. VINTAGE: Circa 1940's. SIZE: Approximately 39" in length x 2" in width; Handle 7-1/2 " in length by about 1-1/2" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a 2001 Trek Bicycles catalog featuring Lance Armstrong, winner of the Tour de France and former professional cyclist. VINTAGE: Published 2001. SIZE: 67 pages with color photographs; approximately 11" in height and 8-1/4" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a very cool 1963 Schwinn 500 Bicycles Sold Shop / Salesman Lapel Pin Award, an iconic American bicycle manufacturer. Schwinn was founded in 1895 in Chicago. The pin is gold-filled with enamel and has a ruby chip at the top...

ARTIFACT: 1930's Lazar Bicycles enameled pin. The center of the white enameled pin reads: "LAZAR" in red enamel and gilt brass detail and riding along the letters is a bicyclist wearing red. VINTAGE: Circa 1930's SIZE: Approximately...

ARTIFACT: 1930's – 1940's League of American Wheelmen Long Membership lapel pin with ruby by Robbin's Co. in Attleboro, Massachusetts. The center of the pin features a bezel set gemstone and a pinwheel of feather detailed wings inside of a bicycle wheel...