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 FIND AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CARMAKERS.

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Dec 30, 2013

PAN / USA

PAN radiator emblem

The PAN (St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1919 - 1921) was the result of what became one of the biggest stock swindles in the history of the American car industry. The founder Samuel Conner Pandolfo had sold some $ 9,500,000 in stock to some 70,000 people. In 1919, when the verdict was handed down, the company owed $ 250,000 and had only $ 5,000 cash on hand. Sam Pandolfo got 10 years. History has revealed that 737 PANs have been built [Kimes,Clark].

Size	6.5 cm x 5.8 cm
Year	1919 - 1921
Estimate

It is really difficult to find an original emblem. So there are reproductions.

The original is silver plated !

Original: Repro:

And here is one of the shares Connor Rudolfo used to raise the money. It beautifully displays the emblem:

For more emblems see top right of this page ( list of car makers ).

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Welcome

I started collecting radiator emblems 40 years ago. 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 30, 2013

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