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  • slamiste
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2010
    • 260
    #1

    Harley Davidson Humidor

    I've had this sitting on a self for over 25 years. I bought it at an estate sale in Ohio. The cap with the HD logo appears to be a one piece affair and not just a HD badge attached to it. There is nothing else on it that would suggest it's motorcycle related. It's brass colored tin with a 3 sailing ships design in black (Columbus' ships?) on one side. Has anyone seen one of these before?

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    Steve Slaminko
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    • RichO
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2001
      • 903
      #2
      I've never, ever seen anything like hat. Very cool piece!
      DrSprocket

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        • Rubone
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2004
          • 4762
          #3
          I say homemade. The emblem (even the remaining color) is exactly like the reproduction watch fobs sold in the '70s.
          Robbie Knight Amca #2736

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            • duffeycycles
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2010
              • 2007
              #4
              The R in Harley says Willie G Design..the paint outside the lines says crap.

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                • slamiste
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2010
                  • 260
                  #5
                  Yeah, it's homemade. A closer inspection shows that the HD logo is glued to the cap. I had to pry up on an end a bit with a fine pick but it eventually started to come up. It seemed unlikely that it was an original HD piece but at least it became a conversation piece between a few of us.

                  Steve

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                    • ihrescue
                      Super Moderator
                      • Jun 2015
                      • 1140
                      #6
                      What do you think the Bar and Shield came from? Don't discount that the humidor in itself isn't a unique value. Did you say it was plated?

                      Mike Love

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                        • T. Cotten
                          Gadfly from the Dumpster
                          • Jun 2001
                          • 8208
                          #7
                          [QUOTE=ihrescue;185892... Don't discount that the humidor in itself isn't a unique value. ...[/QUOTE]

                          It would be better unmolested,. of course,. Mike!

                          Cigars were never my style, but it would be in daily use for dog treats.

                          (I'd wipe off that sailing ship stencil off in a heart beat.)

                          ....Cotten
                          PS: Is it 'spun brass', Steve?

                          Awesome if it is.

                          Not that its not special anyway!
                          Last edited by T. Cotten; 12-01-2019, 03:50 PM.
                          AMCA #776
                          Dumpster Diver's Motto: Seek,... and Ye Shall Find!

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                            • slamiste
                              Senior Member
                              • Mar 2010
                              • 260
                              #8
                              No idea where the bar and shield came from but I suspect it's as Robbie and duffey theorized (1970's). The material is plated tin, not spun brass. In the long run it doesn't matter. I'll just leave it on the shelf with the other useless but neat to look at things I've collected over the years.

                              Steve Slaminko

                              PS: I kinda like the sailing ships :-).

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                                • Dablaze
                                  Senior Member
                                  • Apr 2011
                                  • 157
                                  #9
                                  The cap looks a bit like the top I once had on a HD beer stein.

                                  Craig

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