Medical, Health & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is an American Red Cross officer's cap badge, which is an eagle bearing an enameled red cross. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/16" in height and 2-7/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Copper-plated...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II British Red Cross Society associate badge by J. R. Gaunt. This badge has an attached service ribbon. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Pin: approximately 13/16" in diameter; ribbon: 1-1/2" by 2-1/4"...

ARTIFACT: This is a nice circa 1930s Canadian Red Cross Society blood donor service member badge. The pin is by Birks Ellis and is numbered on reverse. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 3/4" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is an early American Red Cross Chicago Chapter service pin. The badge reads SERVICE CHICAGO CHAPTER and shows a red cross at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: 5/8" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold-plated brass with red,...

ARTIFACT: This is a dated 1920 American Red Cross First Aid medal named to Samuel (Trevor) Garman. Garman was a famous zoologist and naturalist from Pennsylvania, and was presented with this medal seven years before his death in 1927. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I American Red Cross Foreign Service award medal. The medal reads SERVICE AMERICAN RED CROSS and shows a red cross at center, while the bar at the top of the blue silk ribbon reads FOREIGN SERVICE. VINTAGE: Circa World War...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce World War I pocket mirror from the American Red Cross Canteen Service. The mirror is backed in red, white and blue celluloid and was made by the Parisian Novelty Company of Chicago, Illinois. VINTAGE: Circa World War I...

ARTIFACT: This is an American Red Cross aviation ambulance donation pin in celluloid from World War I. The pin is white with a red cross at center and the word AVIATION beneath. VINTAGE: Circa World War I. SIZE: Approximately 1" in diameter...

ARTIFACT: This is an early World War II donation pin by Coro for the British-American Ambulance Corps. The pin is a wing with the Union Jack and a crown bearing the letters RAF at center. VINTAGE: Circa early World War II. SIZE: 1-1/2" height and...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare numbered unit badge for the Hadfield-Spears ambulance unit, a voluntary Anglo-French medical unit. The unit, originally known as the 282nd Light Surgical Ambulance Corps of the 4th French Army, operated from February...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I lapel pin for the St. John Ambulance Association Ambulance Brigade. The Ambulance Brigade began in 1887, ten years after the founding of the Association itself in the United Kingdom. The Brigade was primarily for...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1950s Emergency Squad Inspector hat badge from the Toms River Chemical/Ciba-Geigy facility in Toms River, New Jersey. Toms River unfortunately made the map for having out of the ordinary cancer rates, a situation caused by the...