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Heather,
Those are some interesting badges.
The first is a standard Delt badge, obviously.
The second, I suspect is some kind of pinmates badge -- thus the chain. Most Delt badges have no jewels -- except for a few chapter president badges -- but none that I've ever seen like that. When I first looked at it, I thought it might be a Delt badge chained to the badge of the old "Rainbow Fraternity" from the South, with which Delt merged (I don't remember just when, but probably early 1900's). Out of respect for the smaller fraternity, many chapters wore both badges. We still perform a ceremony, usually the night before formal initiation, called The Right of Iris, which is very much like the old Rainbow Ritual. It is now a public ceremony. The Delt Ritual, of course, is not. In reading the description before looking at the picture, I thought it might be a Delt badge with a chapter guard (the Greek Letter for the chapter) which chapter presidents also sometimes wore in my era.
The last is a permutation of the standard badge. In some of the early years of the Fraternity, different chapters used slightly different designs. It appears that all of the symbols are there, just not quite in the same configuration as the "normal" badge.
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The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
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