Badge on E-bay
 

I don't know what the situation is, but I managed to rescue an A-Phi badge from this seller. It appears that he has several badges readily available for sale and puts them up for auction every so often, using the same photograph. The badge I received from him had nothing enscribed on the back -- pehaps once belonging to the temporary badge collection a chapter has. Although showing more wear and tear than my badge, the badge I received does not look much older than mine.

Here's another one in need of rescue...

Thanks for the link.

I love the seller's description:

"...there are Greek letters that stand for Alpha Iota Omnicrom, then overimposed on those letters in paint or enamel in lower case letters is Alpha Omnicron Epsilon."

If you don't know, don't just make it up!

Would I be too crass for saying this????........
If the pin is just a quarter inch wide it's probably just a recognition pin so please be educated buyers ladies and don't go knocking yourselves out over it.

Go donate your money to the Foundation instead if you must relieve your wallets of some cash!:D

Here's another one.

A-Phi Pin
 

I have my eye on the 1937 pin since Tau chapter is not far from me...Many of the pins Ihave bought have gone back to collegiates as gifts, one pin with a single pearl went to a little baby legacy to save.....It is so much fun giving these away!

Thanks for the updates...:p

I agree...
 

...with CA in CA...

Be educated Phis when you buy these things...look at the description very carefully and always ask questions when you have them...Really in anything you buy online...

BUT it is fun to bid and know you have won! Enjoy!

:D

Here's another one. This is white gold with pearls and it is absolutely stunning.

Speaking of Alpha Phi badges, LD especially--remember the "red and blue" badges that we don't necessarily think are *our* Alpha Phi badges? Go here and take a look at the picture. I *think* that is the same or at least similar greek inscription on those badges that confound us when they pop up on eBay. And that's certainly not our Alpha Phi--maybe the one that started at Colgate??? I don't think I'm $24.99 curious enough to buy the program and get a closer look for myself though.

I saw this pin on ebay. It's not THE badge but could it be yours?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...925620037&rd=1

That's our pledge pin! Damn, I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since I wore that pin!

Nothing wrong with that--just means you're ready to move up to your 10 year pin!

what is up with this seller? Some of us have bought from her before. If I remember right, she is an Alpha Phi

You know, I'm not a person who gets angry when people sell badges on Ebay, but it does make me sad if a sister is selling a badge.

A quote from her description...
 

Is that true? The scholarship chair gets a badge with a sapphire? That's something I've never heard before.

Here's another pin that needs to get home.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...926937803&rd=1

eBay Screen Names
 

Ladies (particularly mods). I'd like to suggest that we post a thread and pin it that lists our eBay names. I see that there is an A-Phi bidding on one of these pins right now. I won't bid against a sister for a pin, but I think I might have recently done so -- unknowingly. So if we could get a master list going of at least the GC A-Phis that would help us rescue pins and do so for less money (hopefully!).

It makes no sense (at least to me) to get into a bidding war with an Alpha Phi sister over a relatively ordinary pin -- just to rescue it. In the case of extraordinary pins, I can understand the desire to own one and compete with a sister for it.

But generally, we're all out for the same goal and that's to keep the pins out of the hands of collectors and other non-Alpha Phis. We can buy a standard Alpha Phi pin from Masters of Design for cheaper than a lot of these standard pins are going for and I think it could many times be sister vs. sister (unknowingly) for the sake of saving it.

Just my thoughts. :-)

/G

Hi ladies:

Here's another badge I thought you should see. It's a beauty!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...926821945&rd=1

Amanda Dyer
Delta Gamma

FYI - I know the person bidding on the pin above (keithandkim) she's an alpha phi....

And one of our sisters on this board won the badge with the sapphire. The seller was scholarship chair at the time and yes I am kinda peeved that she put the badge on ebay, but I am hella glad that a CA in CA won it!

Well I hope I haven't been bidding against Phi's for the 2 pins I got this week. One is going to replace the one I had stolen 12 years ago and hopefully one of the chapters in Colorado will be able to use the other one. I'll watch closer next time. :eek:

Here's a badge on ebay that says it's a "lazy Alpha Phi"?.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...935002523&rd=1

HI,

I looked carefully at this badge...I do NOT think it is a lazy Phi pin...But that is just my opinion...

There was anopther sorority named Alpha Theta around the same time (don't know much about it...) but their pins looked like this one.

Lazy Phi's are very distinct in their Phi...Althought this one is beautiful - the negraving is pretty...

Some of the first Alpha Phi pins were also cut from one piece of gold...

Any other thoughts???

Maharet

I was thinking the same thing...that the "Alpha" was intertwined with a "Theta", not a "Phi" turned on its side.

And *most* but certainly not *all* of the old Lazy Phi badges have the middle cross-bar of the "Alpha" in a "v" shape rather than straight across.

We did have the issue of custom badges back in the day though.

Anyone want to contact the seller and ask how they know for sure that it's an Alpha Phi badge, and not an Alpha Theta badge?

I agree that it looks like a "theta" not a "phi." The tail of the "phi" is usually longer in "lazy Phi"-style badges.

It is a gorgeous pin though! I still think we need to keep a master list somewhere of all the people we know to be Alpha Phis. If it is OK with the moderators, I'd like to start that thread.

sorry to crash but a BIN of $5000?! :eek: I wonder what the reserve is....

Did lazy phi pins generally have the original owner's whole name on the back or was there no standard practice? I have a regular, non lazy phi badge from the 1920s, and it has a full name on it.

I'd say that someone is hoping that our International HQ will take notice and scam them for a lot of money.

I don't know what the practice was way back when, but I own a couple of 1920s era pins and they, also, have the owner's full name on the back.

TechAphi - sure start the thread

the current high bidder on the badge *is* an alpha phi.

Here's a badge on ebay with a single sapphire.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...97#description

Re: A quote from her description...
 

If it's true that I got screwed bc I was scholarship and never got a badge with a sapphire!

When we colonize a chapter the scholarship chair receives a special pin that is supposed to be passed down from officer to officer. I can't remember off of the top of my head what it looks like. Sorry.

Thanks for the info, bruinaphi! That's cool and I had no idea that was a tradition! Maybe our first scholarship chair kept it! (Not that I'd blame her!) ;)

I confirmed that the blue sapphire is the stone for the scholarship chair badge. My chapter didn't have one when I was in school either.

If the scholarship badge is supposed to be worn by an active while she is scholarship chair, caution, sisters--buying the badge on e-bay would mean you would not be able to wear it!