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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May 8, 2015

REILAND & BREE / USA

Not much is known about the REILAND & BREE TRUCK COMPANY of Northbrook / Illinois ( 1924 - 1931).
The first edition of Georgano´s encyclopedia of Commercial trucks, published in 1978, does not mention this firm. All I know is that they were in the goods vehicle business with a load capacity of one ton or over. So this emblem is a hard to find item. You have to look years for it.

large REILAND & BREE truck emblem from the Lee Roy Hartung collection liquidated in 2011

Year

Dimensions	10,0 cm x 6,2 cm

1924 - 1931

Estimate

reverse with makers mark: S.D. CHILDS CO CHICAGO

For more beautiful car or truck emblems see top right ( list of car makers ).

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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May 8, 2015

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