C&O Canal Miscellaneous Collectables
Notes:
This page contains miscelaneous items related to the C&O Canal - mostly souvenirs and boy-scout
related items.
Plaque - date unknown This C&O Canal Company plaque appears to be made of steel inside brass. It appears to be old, but I don't know anything about it's history. |
1987 Change Purse This change purse from 1987 commemorates the 200th anniversary of Williamsport MD. |
1990 Christmas Ornament This Christmas Ornament depicts the C&O Canal at Hancock MD on the front, and says "Reflections of Christmas 1990 Pen Mar Jaycees 3rd Edition" on the back. |
Flat Ornament This flat, gold-colored ornament depicts a canal boat, and says: C & O CANAL / NATIONAL HISTORICAL / PARK |
2000 Paper Weight This paper weight has a nice marble base & metal plate. It commemorates the 150th anniversary of the completion of the C&O Canal in 1850. |
Glass Paper Weight This paper weight is made of glass with a color picture at the bottom. I suspect it's older than the paper weight above, but I don't know it's date. It says: "C. AND O. CANAL, CUMBERLAND, MD." |
2000 Refrigerator Magnet This metal refrigerator magnet commemorates the 150th anniversary of the completion of the C&O Canal in 1850. |
2004 Yellow Cloth Map This yellow cloth map is about 22" square. It says "Chesapeake & Ohio Canal" around each side, and has a map of the canal in the middle. It is copywrited 2004. |
Refrigerator Magnet This refrigerator magnet depicts a canal boat and says "WESTERN TERMINUS OF THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL, CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND" along the bottom. |
Plaque This plaque is made of copper mounted on wood. |
Plaque This plaque is a tile with a cork backing and a metal hook for hanging. It says: "C&O Canal - Cumberland Loading Docks". It looks like the signiture says "J. DeHart". |
Wooden Cutout This wooden cutout block is painted with the Monocacy Aqueduct on the front. The back has a description of the aqueduct, and says "www.myhometowne.com". |
Matchbook This matchbook depicts a canal boat, with the words "CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL" under it. The other side of the matchbook says "Giant Food ... Super Giant". of the aqueduct, and says "www.myhometowne.com". |
Walking Stick Medallion This curved medallion is meant to be nailed onto a walking stick. It says "CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL COMPANY". The bag it came in said it was from a company called Hike America. |
Bottle This bottle was hand made by the Clevenger Brothers glass works in NJ. It was made using a standard bottle mold, and a custom metal "slug plate", which is shown below. |
Slug-plate for the above bottle This is the metal slug-plate that was used to provide the embossed image of the C&O Canal boat in the bottle pictured above. It contains a mirror-image of what's on the bottle, cut into the metal (which leaves a right-side-around image on the bottle). |
Plastic Whistles Green plastic whistles - one says "CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK" and the other just says "C & O CANAL". |
Cloth Bag This is a cloth bag that says: "C&O CANAL ASSOCIATION". |
Club member Card This is a 2.25"x3.75" card that says: Williamsport C&O Canal Club Inc. / WILLIAMSPORT, MD. / Member of Club / This Club was organized November 21, 2957 for the sole purpose of supporting the restoration of the C & O Canal - To be part of the Federal Park Service in perpetuity. |
Boyscout Neckerchief This is a triangular yellow cloth neckerchief for the Boy Scouts of America. The picture is not to scale - it's about 40" wide and 20" tall. The circular part resembles the boyscout patch shown in the patches section. . |
Boyscout Neckerchief-clip This is a circular metal neckerchief clip for the Boy Scouts of America that says: "C&O CANAL HISTORICAL TRAIL B.S.A.". |