Industrial Artifacts

Industrial Artifacts www.industrialartifacts.net We deal exclusively in vintage industrial lighting, seating, tables, advertising, and other found objects. We have a 20,000+ sq. ft.
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Vintage Industrial Artifacts
Lighting | Seating & Tables | Found Objects
New Items Arriving Daily

Industrial Artifacts - Located in the Western Chicago land area. facility with new items arriving daily. Catering to every size design project, we can scale from small home decor to full furnishings for your office/bar/restaurant. We can personally deliver within 150 miles of Chicago. We also offer global shipping of any item. Feel free to email or call us at (815) 299-7625

P.S. We're always buying ;)

09/17/2026

If this is your first time seeing us, stick around, we’ve got a lot of history to show you…

09/15/2026

Before Prohibition, Brunswick-Balke-Collender wasn’t just selling billiard tables, they were helping furnish the entire American saloon. When Prohibition arrived, an enormous part of that business disappeared almost overnight. This little salesman-sample decanter is a surviving piece of that forgotten side of Brunswick history.

09/12/2026

salesman sample
noun | sales·man sam·ple

: a miniature or scaled-down version of a product, made to demonstrate its design, features, or operation to prospective customers.

09/10/2026

Jerry “The King” Lawler was dropping people on their heads with the piledriver long before most of us knew what the move was called. Turns out, the real thing is pretty damn interesting too.

09/09/2026

Part two from yesterday’s LaPlant-Choate find. This one’s still a bit of a mystery—root rake, clearing rake, or something else entirely? Let’s see who knows.

09/08/2026

The spirit of invention from this era is hard to beat. Even the sales tools were incredible, fully functional miniatures built just to show people how a new idea worked.

09/05/2026

I love railroad history. I just wish considerably less of it went through DeKalb every day.

09/03/2026

It’s amazing how much of the past is still out there just waiting to be found. What would you want to see more of?

09/03/2026

There was a time when the local soda fountain was the place to be. Hard to imagine how many first dates, after-school stops and Saturday afternoons happened across counters like these. Some of you probably still remember them.

09/01/2026

We love getting to share these old salesman samples with you guys. It’s amazing how much effort went into making some of these, and we’re always curious which ones you find the most interesting…

Address

230 N 10th Street
Dekalb, IL
60115

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 8pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 8pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 8pm
Thursday 10:30am - 8pm
Friday 10:30am - 8pm
Saturday 10:30am - 8pm

Telephone

+18152997625

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