Medical, Health & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I St. John Ambulance Association ambulance driver hat badge Type II. The type II version has the Rd. ("Registered") number on the reverse. The British organization has links to the age-old Order of St. John...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I St. John Ambulance Association ambulance driver hat badge Type The type I version has the Rd. ("Registered") number on the front, just below the Maltese Cross. The British organization has links to the age-old...

ARTIFACT: This is a 2004 Variety Children's Charity donation pin. The pin is heart-shaped and shows movie character "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" touching his finger to a child's finger, revealing his "heartlight". VINTAGE: Circa 2004...

ARTIFACT: This is a Syosset Hospital Health Services - New York State Department of Education pin. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: About 1" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gilt brass with blue and white enamel and gold lettering...

ARTIFACT: This is an interesting framed 1956 doctor's Boston City Hospital residency certificate. It was issued to Robert Irwin Katz, M.D., who served with the United States Marine Corps as a Naval Medical officer during the Korean War. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s or 1930s employee or attendant badge for Green Mountain Lake Farms Inc. in Pawling, New York, a railway community. Green Mountain Lake Farms was the name given to the property purchased by Consolidated Edison of New York...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa 1930 Emergency Squad hat badge from Rahway, New Jersey by S. H. Reese. The badge is numbered 30, reads FIRST AID and shows the State of New Jersey seal at its center. VINTAGE: Circa 1930. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a Lovely 1890's Connecticut Humane Society Member Lapel Badge. The badge reads CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY and shows a guardian angel and a child standing with a dog and a horse. VINTAGE: 1890s. SIZE: Approximately 15/16" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is a fleam from the Civil War era or an earlier period. It has three posts with puncture points, and was made by Joseph Rodgers and Sons. It is in excellent condition. The fleam was a tool used by surgeons for bloodletting: this design may...

ARTIFACT: This is a fleam from the Revolutionary War era. It has three posts with puncture points and one straight edge, and is possibly of American manufacture. The fleam was a tool used by surgeons for bloodletting: this design may possibly have been...

ARTIFACT: WWII Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania women's volunteer organization badge: Memorial Gold Cross First Aid and Ambulance Corps which saw upwards of 2,000 members during the war. The round red, white, and blue enameled badge reads: "MEMORIAL GOLD...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Civil Defense First Aid Specialist patch. The patch is in embroidered blue twill showing a red cross within a white triangle and has snap fasteners on reverse. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Approximately 3" in...