Aircraft Company Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II cigar ashtray fashioned from piston made by Wright Aircraft Engines. The piston is well suited to its repurposed form: it has thick walled sides, depressions large enough for a stogie and a grated interior bottom...

ARTIFACT: This is a sterling and enamel Douglas Aircraft "Bond-A-Month" Club lapel pin. The pin reads BOND-A-MONTH DOUGLAS and shows Douglas' "Around the World" Logo: "Around the World" logo: a globe with three aircraft circling it. VINTAGE: Circa World...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s American Motorless Aviation Corporation (AMAC) third class glider badge by Whitehead & Hoag. The badge is round, reads AMAC and shows one gull in flight. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 5/8" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Pratt & Whitney USA aircraft worker patch. The patch shows an eagle in flight and reads PRATT & WHITNEY U.S.A. DEPENDABLE ENGINES. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: 3-7/8" height and 4-7/8" width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: Gorgeous WWII Era Wright Aero Corp. 15 year service pin in 14K gold by Whitehead & Hoag. The intricately detailed lapel pin features a two-dimensional globe with a ruby in its center and red enameled wings on either side, surrounding it reads:...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa late 1930s through World War II pin for Wright Aero Corporation, the aircraft engine manufacturing division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The pin was given to a Wright employee with five years of service with the company...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II worker identification badge by Whitehead & Hoag for the Solar Aircraft Company. Born in 1927 as the Prudden-San Diego Airplane Company, the outfit was renamed Solar Aircraft Company two years later. Initially an...

ARTIFACT: This is a National Air Transport Airlines agent's hat badge. The badge reads NAT PASSENGER AGENT and the NAT has an arrow piercing the letters. VINTAGE: Circa early 1930s. SIZE: 2-7/8" width and 12" length. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Felt...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful, large and heavy 1915 bronze medal commemorating the winning of the Curtiss Marine Flying Trophy by the Aeronautical Society of California, made by Stark. The medal depicts mythical gods reaching for a plane soaring above a globe and...

ARTIFACT: This is a great parts box from Jacobs Aircraft Engines dated 194Formed in Philadelphia in 1929, Jacobs was absorbed into Republic Industries following World War II. The box still has its tape seal and is reinforced at the corners with metal...

ARTIFACT: This is a grouping containing a Curtiss instructor's patch, a Wright Aero Corp. patch and two dated postcards from California and Texas. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Various sizes: Curtiss patch is 5-3/4" height and 7-1/2" width. CONSTRUCTION...

ARTIFACT: This is a great late 1930s - early World War II lapel pin from the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation showing an enameled F2A "Buffalo" aircraft. Brewster Aeronautical operated from 1932 to 194The slogan on the logo, which mentions a birth year...