TKE Facts and Trivia

[Erik P Conard]

when TKE went to producing badges "in earnest" We did cut a
deal with Lloyd Balfour, long before my time. We had a very good
TKE with Burr-Patt, Frank Licher, who was never able to swing a deal to pull TKE away from Balfour. Lloyd supplied all new Teke fielders with business cards, nice ones. And I recall how nicely
we were all treated at various Balfour locations, they did lots of
favors for us. And Balfour, a Life Loyal Sig if there ever was one,
left them a chunk, a big chunk, of bucks. But he did the entire system of greeks lots of favors. Nothing but praise for this good
businessman. There were many local jewelers of varying sizes in
the 20s and 30s and I would guess each outfit had one before they drifted mostly to Balfour. Sorry, stumped me on this one!