Posts Tagged ‘Illinois

1928 Slyker Radiator/Crane Plumbing Double Sided Ad 1928 Slyker Radiator/Crane Plumbing Double Sided Ad You are bidding on a rare, 100% authentic February 1928 print advertisement for Schleicher Incorporated, located in Gary, Indiana, makers of “Slyker Metal Radiator Furniture.” On the reverse side is an advertisement for The Crane Plumbing Company, located in Chicago, Illinois. [...]

RARE 1950s How To Improve Your Baseball Feller/Motorola This rare and unique piece of baseball memorabilia and vintage advertising is being offered for auction by its original owner! The book is entitled, “How To Improve Your Baseball”. The piece advertises Motorola Inc., of Chicago, Illinois, and explains this as the “World’s Largest Exclusive Electronics Manufacturer”. [...]

Cookbook Louisiana’s Fabulous Foods & How to Cook Them Cookbook Louisiana’s Fabulous Foods & How to Cook Them This auction is for a soft-cover booklet, Louisiana’s Fabulous Foods (and How to Cook Them), by Lady Helen Henriques Hardy and Raymond J. Martinez, no copyright date. I have seen no tears or writing. The cover is [...]

How to Improve Your Volleyball mid-60′s 1960′s KeepFit This little 61-page book was published sometime in the mid-60′s, I believe, though I can’t find a year of printing on it anywhere. It was published by The Athletic Institute in Chicago (“Chicago 4, Illinois”), and ‘represents’ The United States Volleyball Association. This book has everything- diagrams [...]

NOS National Electric NL-1220 Nixie Tube 7134 Made USA Vintage NOS National Electric NL-1220 Nixie Tube This auction is for a vintage NOS National Electric (Geneva, Illinois) NL-1220 nixie tube. From discarded stock at Argonne National Lab; a friend of mine used to build test equipment for them and this was left over from years [...]