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WOW! I do believe this is an extremely old pin, 100 years or more old. I am looking in my old "History of Delta Gamma" issued 1973, and there is a photo of several early pins. It is tinted black and white and hard to tell, but it looks like one has a loop at the top and emeralds, and the cable goes behind the TDH bar. All look rather different, as if each was hand made by a different person. The lettering looks similiar to the lettering on the badge for sale. Another photo of an early badge shows it as a stickpin...there is a horseshoe on the top of the pin.
In the report on the 1905 Convention, the "History" states: "A uniform badge had become a necessity because of the many sizes and differences of design which came with the many authorized official jewelers - and probably some who were not official. The form used by Bunde and Upmeyer, our oldest authorized jeweler, was accepted."
During that same 1905 Convention, we adopted the familiar Pi Alpha new member pin.
At Officer Training Seminar in 1998, a PCC stood up and said she collected old badges. She had found a man that had an "H" badge but had not persuaded him to part with it yet!
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