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.

Sep 13, 2013

BENZ GAGGENAU

BENZ GAGGENAU radiator emblem

The famous German BENZ - that merged with Mercedes in 1926 - bought the GAGGENAU truck factory in 1912. From then on they built their own trucks under the name: BENZ GAGGENAU.
They had their production peak while WWI. It is a hard to find item.

Size	7.9 cm (emblem only)
Year	1912
Estimate

Here you see see another version. The colors are not separated with a dam from each other as usual. It is a more complicated technique also used by BUGATTI.

funny advertisment (1921)

Beware: this is an reproduction

advertisment of 1922 showing the emblem

Here you see an original GAGGENAU emblem
before it became BENZ GAGGENAU

another brass emblem where you can read: Sueddeutsche Automobile Gaggenau

the first and last enameled GAGGENAU emblem

Size	c. 12.0 x 5.0 cm
Year	1909 - 1910
Estimate

rare BENZ GAGGENAU hub cap

For more emblems see older posts or top right of this page ( list of car makers ).
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AnonymousSeptember 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM
Never seen a real GAGGENAU emblem. Thank you Claus
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AnonymousJanuary 21, 2023 at 2:49 AM
Hi. Loved your blog. The "original Gaggenau emblem before Benz..." is not star- rated. I happen to be friends with a guy who owns a rare Chadwick with a mask topped by that very emblem. As the car is a record car (one of a kind), I guess the original owner fitted it with a Gaggenau radiator.
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Welcome

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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Sep 13, 2013

BENZ GAGGENAU

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