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 FIND AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CARMAKERS.

Aug 11, 2013

CHIRIBIRI / ITALY

CHIRIBIRI radiator emblem

Another forgotten Italian automobile producer was Antonio CHIRIBIRI from 1906 to 1927. He built small cars. His production plant was bought by LANCIA in 1928. Here you see the oval emblem in the art noveau style.
1924 and later they had a simple rectangular emblem.

Size	5.4 cm x 9.5 cm
Year	ca. 1920
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contemporary picture of the typ Monza from the Klaas Dierks collection

1925 CHIRIBIRI radiator with emblem and motometer , seen in Italy

CHIRIBIRI stand in Milano / Italy in 1925

and nearly 100 years later in Padova / Italy:

CHIRIBIRI MONZA TIPO SPINTO

There a really bad repros made in Italy. They all have a flat back. So have a look at this original and compare before buying.

For more emblems see older posts or top right of this page ( list of car makers ).
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AnonymousAugust 13, 2013 at 5:47 PM
Finally we can see an original Chiribiri emblem.
Thank you Claus
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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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Aug 11, 2013

CHIRIBIRI / ITALY

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