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.

Dec 27, 2015

COLOMBE / FR

COLOMBE / COLOMBE / FRANCE ( 1920 - 1924 )

The Automobiles COLOMBE started car production at Colombe / Seine (nor far from Paris ) with an assembled car using Model T Ford engine and transmission in 1920.
In 1923 they offered a three-wheeler car using a single-cylinder engine with 345cc only.
These cars took three World Records for the 350cc class at Arpajon in 1924.

They used an emblem in a strange form like a lying egg:

Year

Size	ca. 6.0 x 4.5 cm

1920 - 1926

Estimate

one of the rare advertisements, seen in a 1924 French magazine

down to the right: the COLOMBE cyclecar

Very rare sales brochure showing the emblem but also a radiator mascot. Who knows more ?

Source: Publicité Automobiles Archives de la Somme Guer 1310 lot 1 media 1

For more 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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