Medical, Health & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a Beautiful Circa 1900 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Member Lapel Badge with Original Box. The badge reads THE MASSACHUSETTS S.P.C.A. (A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and shows an...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s advertising first aid tin for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or AT&T, which was founded in 188The company had been around for a decade previously before it assumed its now famous name as a venture under the...

ARTIFACT: This is an old New York Life Saving Service badge from the erly 1900's with wonderful detail work by V. Benz in New York. The reverse is numbered "1383" and shows a nice maker's mark. VINTAGE: Circa early 1900's. SIZE: About 1-1/2" in width...

ARTIFACT: Extremely rare and very cool 1930's Aerial Nurse Corps of America Flight Nurse uniform jacket with wing and shoulder patch. The uniform wing reads "NURSE" and the patch shows a red, embroidered plane in the center, along the top it reads "DIV"...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful copy Ambulance No. 10 Personal Letters From The Front by Leslie Buswell and printed by Houghton Mifflin Company – The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This example is the First Trade Edition of the previously private...

ARTIFACT: Nice size vintage 1940's Standard Porcelain, Trenton, New Jersey acid-resistant mortar and pestle size #2. VINTAGE: Circa 1940's SIZE: Approximately Size #2; Mortar: 2-1/2"x 3-7/8" (top diameter); Pestle: 4-1/" x 1" (bottom...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1940's Cruz Roja Panamena (Panama Red Cross) lapel badge. The center shows a red cross against a white enameled circle and the outer red ring reads: "ROJA PANAMENA CRUZ". VINTAGE: Circa 1940's. SIZE: Approximately 3/4" in...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1930's – WWII Italian Fascist Red Cross enameled lapel badge. The small rectangular pin features an enameled red cross in the upper corner atop a feather with a partial Fascia below in raised detail and the reverse shows:...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful WWI Croce Rossa Italiana (Italian Red Cross) enameled member badge by Johnson in Milano. The center of the shield-shaped badge is a raised, white enamel disc with a red cross and the surrounding is detailed in green enamel. The...

ARTIFACT: This medal is a 1914 German Sanitatshunde Table Medal. The word, Sanitatshunde, translates literally to "Sanitary Dog", but can also mean "Medic Dog." The British refer to them as "Mercy Dogs." The large-scale use of dogs in war times was...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1945 Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Lapel Pin in enameled sterling silver. The Visiting Nurse Service of New York is one of the oldest not-for-profit home healthcare agencies in the country, established in 189In the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1945 Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Hat Badge in enameled nickel. The Visiting Nurse Service of New York is one of the oldest not-for-profit home healthcare agencies in the country, established in 189In the 40's,...