I wonder if the reason there are so many badges on e-bay is because people who deal in antique jewelry realize there are customers for their wares. (I remember once meeting a woman who had a PiPhi badge on her lapel, worn as a pin rather than as a badge. I asked her about her affiliation; she said, "Oh, it was my mother's. I just like to wear it." I suspect many badges get to dealers and to e-bay because "the pin was in mother's jewelry box.")
Alpha Gamma Delta makes it very clear that members have a "life-long lease" on their badges. Do those of you in other NPC groups have similar understandings? (When I was at headquarters for chapter consultant training, my fellow cc's and I got into the safe where all the badges of deceased and former members were kept. Kind of macabre! I wish they would recycle such badges....)
I am also a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, which has a "P.E.O. Will," instructions to survivors about the disposition of the emblem (as P.E.O. calls the badge).
When I asked my husband about his fraternity's policy he said firmly that he had purchased his badge and it was his to do with as he pleased. (Which was to give it to me. <g> )
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