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Originally Posted by LucyKKG
Umm...I'm totally guessing here...it looks like the left side says "Aoiiov..." and the right side says "Xai Phila". Is that like "and love"? This is making my head hurt, so I give up.
(You should see me squinting and turning my head weird ways trying to read this!)
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Hey, you're doing better than I could.
But
and in Greek is
kai, not
xai. Hmmm . . . .
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Originally Posted by tangelo212
Our original colors were actually blue and gold...
If it is a pre-1906 badge (which would be unusual because I thought most of the pre-1906 badges were the lazy Phi style), perhaps the sister who had it made added the blue enamel as a token of our original colors?
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Maybe, but not necessarily. I have my great grandfather's Pi Kappa Alpha badge (from the 1880s), and the enamel on the diamond is blue, although as far as I can tell, Pike has never used colors other than garnet and gold. (According to old Bairds, Pike badges used to be blue or black.)
Meanwhile, the enamel on SAE badges is blue even though their colors are purple and gold. And then there are all the badges with black enamel for organizations that don't have black as a color.
Really, when you go to back to pre-standardized badges from the 1800s, it could be nothing more than personal preference and current fashion.
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