AGD Badge on Ebay
 

Sorry to intrude on your forum, but I wanted to let you know about an AGD badge on EBay!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145

Thank you. I believe the new owner is an Alpha Gamma Delta.

yep - that would be me! trying to do my part in the world of alpha gam badges on ebay (when i can afford it at least!)

marissa


hey - maybe it's been awhile for me or it's just a really bad photo - but is this really an alpha gam pledge pin? i thought it was suppossed to be green and yellow - not yellow and white.

ebay badge

Maybe the green's worn off? Who knows...

The design is right, but the colors aren't. Strange.

I had seen the pledge pin on ebay. I wondered the same thing. But the design is right. I understand how the badges get to ebay. But the pledge pin? That just means something went wrong. I hate to see the pledge pin out there.

From the photo, it look like light green and it looks worn.

I have seen some pledge pins that had light green instead of dark green. I always wondered why there were two different colored pledge pins.

Another one up for sale...
 

aren't you supposed to return your pledge pin? b/c that's messed up that they are on ebay....

It's probably someone who de-pledged and didn't give it back.

I'm current bidder on the pledge pin. It says it's a 1960's era pin. Didn't they change the pledge pin in the 1970's?

Yes, that is a pledge pin. The green enamel on those pins was quite pale. They changed the size in the early 1970's--the old model was so small it was hard to see and hard to pin on!

Nann

At upsilon we are allowed to purchase our pledge pin when we buy our badge. Then the next year when we get sis dots we pin them with our pledge pin and they feel special because we are allowing them to wear something of ours

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145
The seller says: The markings on the back say it is from the Epsilon Pi chapter. It has the initials AA, and the initiation # of 617

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here is one that is not listed as agd specifically. it is my favorite agd badge...with the pearls on the a.....if only i were an agd...lol. so far it is at a reasonable price, too!

OMG I'm soooo tempted to bid on that pin! That's the one I want!!!

Just wondering...If the back is stamped with A-725, would it be correct to assume that this is an Alpha chapter badge?

Wierdest description of an AGD badge, lol. :D

I wish that I could locate my original badge. It was a plain gold with the diamond center. I was from the late 70's and was so heavy. I lost track of it around graduation. It probably went to the dry cleaners.

I have another badge now-an all pearl Alpha. I just hate that it is not my own.

re

I just bought this one. It was expensive, but I got it away from a pin collector, so I don't mind too much.

If anyone is interested in the (Tau) chapter guard, PM me and let me know.

Did anyone see the pearl badge with the diamond on ebay? The seller cancelled the auction. So there is no way to know if the new owner is an Alpha Gam. Very frustrating. I was bidding for that one.

Here are some that are up right now....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145
1931, Gamma Alpha Chapter, University of Georgia

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J.A.W. - 5/3/58, Seller says that it's Chi Chapter, Michigan State University

i picked this one up - not too bad of a price either. still not sure if the A-725 means that it's an alpha chapter badge though.

marissa

Here's another one, but it's only listed as Alpha Delta, so it wouldn't come up on a normal search:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145


There's also a mother's pin up for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145

We lost this one to a dealer/trader or something. You can see in his history he buys and sells. He won a gamma phi badge not too long ago. Ugh! :mad:

not quite sure...
 

hey everyone, this is listed as an alpha gam badge but i don't recognize it. was the badge ever designed like this:

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I have no idea what that pin is, but I'm almost positive it is not an Alpha Gamma Delta badge.

The very first pins were a monogram, but the Delta was on top instead of the Alpha. The Founders didn't like the design and it was discarded within the first year or so.

Other than that first "draft", the Badge's design has always been the one we know, love, and wear today.

(Edited to add: that first design was discarded in the first few months. The Founders were wearing the present Badge design by November 1904.)

ok thanks! i didn't think it was an alpha gam badge, but i wanted to make sure!

No problem! :)

Speaking of the first design, I wonder what happened to those badges. As far as I know, there were only 11--maybe 12--of them ever made. Were they melted down? Are they in IHQ's archives? Or are they floating out in the antique market somewhere, waiting for an Alpha Gam who knows what they truly are to find them?

I would think that if you found one...well, to an Alpha Gam it would be the equivalent of a Holy Grail. :eek:

Isn't it Alpha Phi that has a "lazy lettered" badge? This one looks more like a smushed AGD badge!;) :p

Our Founders badges are at IHQ on display. Can't recall if all of them were there or not.

Thanks to Cele, GPhiBLtCol, for letting me know about the Gamma Alpha Badge. GA was 8 years old!

There's a new one on. I'm considering bidding on it, but I really shouldn't be spending money on that kind of thing right now. Maybe if there's someone on here who's from the UGA chapter who would like it.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...category=11145

Who was the sister on here who had the University of Toronto badge? I'd be willing (more than willing!! I'd pay shipping plus!) to trade my pearl badge of around the same time period to have a badge from my own chapter's history.

I saw that one. They started the bid way too high! Most have gone for more than that, but the bidding starts off slow. The less money they make off our badges the happier I am.

i picked that UGA badge up - it's really not practical for me right now - with s/h i'll end up paying 'bout $93. if somebody wants to buy it from me, lemme know - if not - well i've got another badge!

marissa

I'm glad another AGD got it instead of a collector :)

Marissa, you could email Gamma Alpha....

another one...
 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145

The price is pretty low on this one right now, but one of our GC sisters (Kristin UTD*AGD) has the most recent bid.

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No bids right now, but that skidmarks guy that no one likes is selling it and it's starting at $75.


Has anyone else noticed that it's pretty much just the 14-pearl badges that have been showing up on eBay? Just a random observation...

Oops, didn't notice this other one when I hit submit...


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The diamond in the center looks oddly disproportionate, for some reason. It's starting at $49.99.

i noticed that too... i wonder if it's just the way the picture was taken.

kristin, is that you bidding on it?