RadiatorEmblems: UNION / GERMANY

Jun 2, 2014

UNION / GERMANY

The German UNION car company started as Unionwerke Maschinenfabrik in Mannheim / Germany in 1885. They offered their first truck in 1914 at the beginning of WW I.
Later it became UNION AG.
To my knowledge they offered trucks only.
It was a short lived company without any commercial succes.
Not a single truck survived.

This emblem is really a rare bird:

UNION radiator emblem

Dimension	10.1 cm x 7.1 cm
Year	1914 - 1921
Estimate

reverse without makers mark

UNION radiator emblem with contemporary ad

another contemporary ad showing the radiator with emblem

For more beautiful truck and car emblems see older posts or 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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