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.

Dec 12, 2015

WIKOV / CS

One of the quite unknown Czech car builders was the WIKOV ( named after the two founders Wichterle & Kovarok ).
It was a short lived company the built cars and trucks from 1929 to 1939. Before the beginning of WW II the car production ended for ever. Around 800 cars were built.

The car radiator emblem is showing a man with a hammer. But I can´t give you any explanation about the origin of these symbols as it is not the weapon of the town Prostejov where the cars were built. May be you can help ?

WIKOV radiator emblem

Dimensions	6,3 cm
Year	1929 - 1932
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no makers mark

WIKOV also built trucks from 1929 to 1939 and I´m proud to show you a WIKOV truck emblem:

large WIKOV truck emblem

Dimensions	8,1 cm
Year	1929
Estimate

For more beautiful car and truck 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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Dec 12, 2015

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