Stolen KKG pins! Please help! Pass this along....

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Originally Posted by badgeguy

This is a stunning old KKG pin. Really like the turquoise. Also, the name on back, is that the KKG Founder Mary Stewart? OR was this a relative to her?? Very cool.

Originally Posted by badgeguy

The date is 1885, and yes knowing they were founded in 1870, just wondering if this pin belonged to a sister, or daughter or relative of the founder, or could this have been another key given to Mary Stewart in 1885 for special reasons? I'm unfamiliar with how pins are engraved for KKG.

Other groups their engraving are sometimes easier to determine school or chapters.

BG

Originally Posted by badgeguy

After sending emails to all the schools that had KKG chapters, it appears that this pin was from a Ella May Stewart who was at the University of Wisconsin, Eta Chapter, but never graduated. The archives had a photo of her as well.


Its so cool discovering out new things. And yeah for digitalizing old archive material!

Originally Posted by badgeguy

I'm using the photos for my Bairds photo album and wanted to have the correct info.

Originally Posted by badgeguy

Gee, that would be a shame. But, when it come to gathering information about all the various groups, a place like GC is exactly what one needs these days. It's a great resource that helps one to be able to work on a huge project as I've been working on to update the old Bairds manuals. Even William R Baird relied on the graciousness of others to supply him information on all the various groups in order to try and have as accurate as possible the information to create his manuals.

Thanks to all who are willing and interested in helping me gather information so that I can make sure I have as accurate of information as I can when I complete the project.

Cheers.
BG

Originally Posted by badgeguy

This is a first for me, and I need to ask for help from anyone on here who has had to deal with stolen badges before.

As many of you may have seen, there are two very beautiful and old Kappa Kappa Gamma badges on eBay or as its said on here "that site". These badges are badge from the early 1900s and belonged to actual siblings.

As it turns out, these pins are stolen pins! These pins along with several other old pins were stolen from a family friend of mine years ago. These pins along with the others were reports stolen over 10 years ago, and they thought that they'd never be able to recover them as they and the police suspected that there had been melted down for scrap gold!

While searching that site, I came upon the current auction and told my friend that I thought they looked familiar, and showed them the auction, to their surprise it was their pins!! These pins had been in the family for decades until they were stolen from their home years ago!

I proceeded to contact the seller to inform him or her of the information about these pins being stolen property, but the seller emailed back with just one sentence that he "bought them from the descendants" and that I am basically full of it!!

Well, needless to say, I had my friend to to contact eBay about these items as well, but they informed them (and to my surprise) that they would need to get the police involved in order to have an auction stopped.....

They have contacted the local police, who are looking into it, but the bad thing is we don't know exactly where this seller is located (other than the state of New Jersey).

So..I came to the only other place I knew where hopefully someone may know or recognize this seller or maybe know a location to where my friends can contact the police to get these pins back.

Anyone who has any knowledge of what they can do to get these back would be most helpful and please PM me or post........

Its great to know that these pins WEREN'T melted down as they had one day hoped to be able to pass these along to their daughters if they ever joined KKG.

I appreciate any advise or info anyone can share, and please know that this has nothing to do with ME, and that I am merely trying to help out a family friend who does not do GC.

**Keeping fingers crossed**
BG

Oh yeah, the pins were from the Spaulding sisters who attended the University of Kansas, and Gertrude had later married a man who was a Sigma Chi. (This info ISNT in the listing, but which is known by the true descendants and rightful owners of the pins!)

So, BG, you first noticed these badges on 1/19, have been poking around here trying to get posters to provide you background info, have researched all over the place about these badges/ladies, but only last night (1/27) realized that these were stolen from a friend of yours?

Personally, I would think it would be unusual for many items from the same estate to be stolen 10 years ago and then all wind up on a re-sale site the same week. How have they (and by they I don't just mean the two Kappa Keys) remained together this long despite being stolen property? Would be interesting to know.