Transportation Related Artifacts & Collectibles

ARTIFACT: This is a old Colonial Shipping Line butter pat dish. VINTAGE: Circa 1912. SIZE: About 3" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Painted Porcelain. ATTACHMENT: None. MARKINGS: Baucher New York-Chicago Weidon(Germany) 1912. ITEM...

ARTIFACT: Great circa 1900 Canadian Pacific Starboard Crew badge #15 in stamped brass. The five point, convex star badge displays the number: "15" in the center in raised detail and surrounding it reads: "CANADIAN PACIFIC STARBOARD"...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1900 Hamburg - Amerika Steamship Line Petty Officer hat badge in wire, tinsel, and silk embroidery on wool. The center of the hat badge shows an embroidered flag of blue and white with gray details and black lettering. The flag pole is...

ARTIFACT: This is a soup bowl from the Porto Rico Steamship Line made by Buffalo China. The ship china topmark on the rim of the bowl shows a maroon pennant encircled by a round logo with ribbon tails. There is a B at the center of the pennant...

ARTIFACT: 1910's - 1920's Eastern Steamship Lines key for Berth #12 of the S.S. New York. Eastern Steamship Co. was established in 1901 by Charles Wyman Morse through the merge and consolidation of three shipping companies that controlled a number of...

ARTIFACT: This is a Clyde Ship Line baggage tag numbered 306 for Boston. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: About 1-11/16" in width by 1-15/16" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Stamped brass with white painted lettering. ATTACHMENT: Hole...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 souvenir paperweight for the Fall River Lines Steamer Plymouth. The glass paperweight has an original New York maker label on the reverse. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 4-1/4" in length and 2-7/8" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880s or 1890s Dominion Line Steamship china double egg cup. The Dominion Line was a trans-Atlantic line operating between Liverpool, England and some New England and eastern Canadian ports in late nineteenth until 192The floral...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1870's fine crystal wine glass for the Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) shipping line. Established in 1872, CSAV is the oldest Chilean shipping line and now the largest one in Latin America. This glass would have been...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautifully made enameled pin for a French steamship line. It shows a blue anchor crossed with a white flag showing a small red ball and with the words: Cie. Gle. TRANSATque. All of this is surrounded by a shield-shaped red wreath...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa early 1900s enameled brooch showing the White Star Lines RMS Celtic at center. Launched from Belfast on April 4, 1901, the Celtic had a record-setting gross tonnage, one of four sister ships known as "The Big Four"...

ARTIFACT: This is a pin for the New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Company, also called the Ward Line, after its founder, James Otis Ward. The company initially ran routes from New York to Havana and Nassau, and later expanded to include the "Mexican...