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 French Brasier 1904. 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.

May 5, 2014

DAB / DENMARK

The Dansk Automobil Byggeri (= DAB) built buses and trucks in Silkeborg, a small town in Denmark from 1912 to 2003. They produced for the local market; to my knowledge they sold a few buses to Poland and Sweden only. In the twenties they had a licence from the German NAG. When BÜSSING took over NAG they acquired a licence from the German BÜSSING. So the first enameled DAB emblem was in the NAG style.
You see it here:

part of the Murray Shears colletion

Dimensions
Year	1928
Estimate

Now you see the second enameled emblem they used. It shows the lion of BÜSSING but here the lion is looking to the left while the same lion from BÜSSING is always looking to the right.

Dimensions	9.8 cm x 15.1 cm
Year	1936
Estimate

There was another prewar version with blue enamel:

After WWII the enameled emblem became flat. Finally there was a small brass emblem only:

For more beautiful car emblems see top right (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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May 5, 2014

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