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Originally Posted by SydneyK
Your whole post is interesting, Peppy, thanks for sharing! I'm especially interested in the quoted part.
Out of curiosity, are the five rejected mottoes and the unselected badge designs from Tiffany's known to Gamma Phis? If that's secret, of course, I understand. But when I read that I thought, if I were a GPhiB, I'd really like to know what other mottoes were considered, as well as badge designs!
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I don't think I've ever heard the rejected names/mottos either but I might have a guess
at a few of them!
Tiffany's in New York has archives of all the jewelry they ever manufactured. The original design is probably there. You have to pay for the research service, so I wonder if IHQ ever asked them to donate whatever they have! Headquarters does have an amazing collection of historical badges and other items but I can't remember seeing badge designs when I was there.
Interesting that originally, the member did not have to have a black enamel crescent. Some were white, and turquoise chips were popular as jewels on the badge. Sometime later, they made the black crescent uniform. Today our International officers have white enamel crescents. Their badges are larger than the standard badge, and they are really stunning!