✅ SOLVED Help with badge, has old ship and D.L. Auld Co.

[doublet2a]

Found at an old home site where we got goodies from early 1900's.
Measures 4 Inches long 2 & 1/2 high. Made of brass and platted with
Seems the Auld Co. made badges and plaques.
Says:

The D.L. Auld Co.
Columbus O.

Just wondering what this particular item was off off??
I found some car emblems made by this co. in some searches.
I'm guessing furniture maybe

Thanks for any help

Tim

 

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[creskol]

The D.L. Auld Company began metal finishing operations on the property (east building) in 1920. The northwest building of the property was used as a bakery from the 1920’s or earlier, until sometime between the mid-1950’s to late 1960’s when the D.L. Auld Company expanded into the bakery building. From 1920s until 1963, the D.L. Auld Company conducted electroplating operations and produced enameled metal emblems. The electroplating operations included chromium, cadmium, copper, nickel, zinc, gold, and silver plating. Based upon historic information, electroplating wastes were piped from the process areas to three injection wells beginning in the mid-1930s. From 1963 to 1970, the D.L. Auld Company conducted anodizing operations and coated metals with polyurethane coatings. In 1962, in-house wastewater treatment began. The forging, anodizing, and metal cleaning process wastewaters were transferred to a settling tank, PH adjustments were made and sludge from the tank was transferred to two sludge beds located on the southeast corner of the site. Liquids from the tank and sludge beds were pumped to the injection wells. Sludge dredged from the beds was sent to a local landfill. In June 1970, the injection systems were disconnected and the Auld facility was tied into the Columbus City Sewer System. From 1970 until 1986, the coating processes were expanded and forging and anodizing continued. In 1986, the Minnesota, Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) purchased the D.L. Auld Company and continued its operations as the 3M Auld Facility. In 1990, 3M discontinued use of a trichloroethene still for the processing of this solvent. Johnston Metals Industries purchased the facility in 1991 and continued similar operations, including the metal coating process and manufactured metallic emblems and aluminum forgings for aircraft and automotive customers until it went out of business. In August 2000, 456 Group LLC purchased the vacant manufacturing facility, which has remained vacant of any industrial uses since then. On April 5, 2010, the City of Columbus and Wagenbrenner received a Clean Ohio Assistant Fund (COAF) grant for environmental assessment of the site which results are included within the 3M CORF application.

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[doublet2a]

WOW!! now that's some Info,, thanks
You found out a lot more than I did..
So it could be anywhere from 1920-1963.

Tim

 

[jewelerguy]

I'm pretty sure that's off an antique Plymouth automobile. I've been looking on the net some but can't get a positive ID to narrow down the year model.

 

[doublet2a]

I'm pretty sure that's off an antique Plymouth automobile. I've been looking on the net some but can't get a positive ID to narrow down the year model.

I think you might be on to something there,, A friend of mine said the same thing..
I did see in a search of the Auld co. that they made a Nash radiator emblem for cars.

http://www.flyingtigerantiques.com/...ta&Product_Code=aut10000n&Category_Code=20AUT

Tim

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I'm pretty sure that's off an antique Plymouth automobile. I've been looking on the net some but can't get a positive ID to narrow down the year model.

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[doublet2a]

Hmmm,, All the other ships are going to the left, mine is going to the right

Tim

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

doublet2a ~

Would you describe your ship emblem as thinish and bendable or thickish and non-bendable?

Thanks.

SBB

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

I can't speak for everyone, but I am ruling out "Plymouth Automobiles" in my future searches. After a solid two hours of searching everything I could related to Plymouth, I couldn't find a single image to support that their image is related to the one in question here. The picture below is similar to the one that Big Cy posted, with mine being described as ...

~ Nineteen Plymouth badges: 1920s thru the 1960s ~

There is substantial evidence to support that Plymouth used the same image of a sailing ship as those shown below, which started from day one when the company was established in 1928.

If my assumptions are correct, then that leaves about a jillion other products the plaque could have come off of, including furniture, wood stoves, farm empliments, tools, household gadgets, etc; etc.

I am not closing the book on this just yet, as the item intrigues me. I will be back if I find anything worth sharing.

SBB

Just for the heck of it, and as a future reference, here is a link to a site showing a good assortment of various other automobile emblems. It may help with the identification of other auto related "What Is It's?"


http://montanapioneerandclassicautoclub.org/emblems/emblems.html



[ Plymouth Automobile emblems - 1920s - 1960s ]

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

I'm not sure if this will help, but I thought identifying the type of ship shown on the plaque might lead to something. So I did a quick search, and everything points to it as being a Spanish Galleon similar to the one pictured below. The second picture is of a Clipper/Merchant ship. Note the differences, especially in the number of sails. I ruled out the "Mayflower" class of ships because they did not have the large fortress-type cabin in the back.

SBB

[ 1. Spanish Galleon ~ 2. Merchant Clipper ~ 3. Mayflower Class ]

 

[thrillathahunt]

Hey Tim, I don't know what it's from but it sure is cool lookin'.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

More ...

I did a patent search for the D. L. Auld Company, and it turns out they only have 35 patents. I looked at every one of them, but found nothing related to the plaque in question. Most of their patents are for "How To Processes," and not for the actual items these so called processes created. Plus, their earliest registered patent was in 1978. So it appears that whatever the item is, it definitely wasn't patented by the Auld Company, but it may have been patented by the company who Auld made it for.

Note* Their designs could have been "copyrighted," but trying to figure that out would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack!

Patent Owner: D.L. Auld Company - Columbus, OH.

Overview:

Total Patents Filed: 35
Total Patents Issued: 35
Most Recent Publication: 1990
Earliest Filing: 1978

 

[doublet2a]

doublet2a ~

Would you describe your ship emblem as thinish and bendable or thickish and non-bendable?

Thanks.

SBB

Definitely thick and non-bendable

Tim

 

[jerseyjack]

It's the plaque from a 1920's radio. Atwater Kent brand.

 

[Bramblefind]

Excellent ID!!

 

[creskol]

Super ID! Another mystery solved!

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

jerseyjack ~

Good job!

Fantastic! How did you find the picture? I have been looking everywhere. If you look close at the bottom part of doublet2a's plaque you will see a straight edge and a thin line where the wording was cut of. I wonder Why? I dunno either!

SBB

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

Check this out ...

Link to Atwater Kent Radios: http://www.atwaterkentradio.com/index.htm

 

[jerseyjack]

I used to collect old radios thats how I knew what it was, yeah it looks like they cut the bottom off with the name, maybe they were going to use it to decorate some kind of project.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I ruled out the "Mayflower" class of ships because they did not have the large fortress-type cabin in the back.

stern castle