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It is possible that the family is selling the badge, or had previously sold the badge, and it is now being re-sold. In any event, chapter #323 is Illinois Eta. Badges originally were engraved with name and initiation date, then initials/ chapter/ date and later with just the member number. They stopped doing the personal engraving in 1978-9 (yes, I know that exactly because my sister's badge is engraved with her member number and mine is not). Anyone know someone from Millikin? That chapter was founded in 1912 and if you estimate an average of 20 new members/year, that would make this badge from 1958... so yes, it could be an estate sale because it is likely to be older than that. I couldn't do a sister search by member number.
Not to change the subject or anything, but I got a really cool 'unofficial' arrow pin from Ebay. It's silver and the arrow is intersecting 2 hearts. It's a cool variation of the Foundation's symbol (I'm sure unintentional but I'll be wearing it at the Officer's Workshop next month)
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