RadiatorEmblems

This page is dedicated to pre war car emblems and interesting post war emblems I want to present to you the most beautiful and the most rarest emblems on this page. To my knowledge the first enameled radiator emblem was on the Georges Richard1903. From this time on thousands of these nice artifacts were mounted on the radiator to identify the car. If you send me a picture from your favorite emblems I´ll post them with a comment. ON THE RIGHT SIDE YOU WILL FIND AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CARMAKERS.

Aug 31, 2013

AQUILA ITALIANA / ITALY

AQUILA ITALIANA radiator emblem

Giulio Pallavicino et Giulio Cesare Cappa started car production under the name of the
Societa Anonima Aquila in Turino / Italy in 1906.
They added the word ITALIANA in 1911 as there were confusions with the German ADLER, because AQUILA and ADLER are the same word for Eagle.
This emblem is from the Bregonzio / Milano collection liquidated in 2009.

Size	8.9 cm x 6.0 cm
Year	1912 -
Estimate

Pay attention: the original emblem is not flat, look at the vaulted eagle ! All reproductions are flat.

The oval emblem was introduced in 1912:

AQUILA seen in Padova / Italy in 2020

flat repro emblem on the AQUILA shown above

1913 sales brochure showing proudly the eagle

1911 AQUILA firewall emblem

Size
Year	1911
Estimate

1911 advertisement showing the emblem above

For more emblems see older posts or top right of this page ( list of car makers ).

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I started collecting radiator emblems in 1976. I remember this clearly because I had to give my first car to the local scrapyard. It was a still nice looking Volkswagen squareback. The scrapyard director was interested in my car and I was interested in the emblems of all cars in the field. So a deal was made. And I went home with a bucket full of emblems. Later I've been on swap meets all around the world. I started buying emblems on Ebay in 1999. From this time on prices became comparable for the first time. This made it possible for me to invent a five-star system to categorize emblems based on their rarity and value.This table is applicable for original emblems in a good but not perfect shape. Not for reproductions.

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	A common pre-war emblem from a mass producer like Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler etc. Value: 0$ - 50$
	Still a well known car but no high production quantities. Value: 50$ - 200$
	Here it starts with the highly collectible emblems. Value: 200$ - 500$
	A very rare and very desirable emblem. You have to look years to find one of these. Value: 500$ - 800$
	An ultra rare piece. Prices are sometimes 800$ and more.

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