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Tom is right, this is the same as the one I donated to IHQ last year. I'm not sure what to make of this design. It has only three triangles instead of four and they're proportionately smaller. This design appears in 17 years-worth of Baird's Manuals from a graphic apparently supplied by IHQ following the merger with TKN in 1939. What's is surprising is that there's no reference to this 3-triangle pledge pin in any Paedagogus or history books, at least that I've ever seen.
The 1940 Paedagogus shows one with 4 triangles, similar to the present day AM pin.
The 1940 Baird's shows the one with 3 triangles.
One would think that IHQ simply sent a prototype graphic to Baird's, except for the fact that these pins really do exist and presumably were issued. When and for how long, I do not know.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
ZAX,
Jono
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