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10-19-2011, 06:39 AM
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The design looks like one of the first badges made by a local jeweler. Note that the Gamma is not "chased" (engraved) the way the standard badges are.
The eBay listing Q&A section says that the badge likely belonged to Cynthia Geer who was initiated into Alpha Chapter in 1958. How would she have gotten by without buying a standard badge? Might she have been a descendant of a founder or early member and have inherited a non-standard badge?
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10-19-2011, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by AGDAlum
The design looks like one of the first badges made by a local jeweler. Note that the Gamma is not "chased" (engraved) the way the standard badges are.
The eBay listing Q&A section says that the badge likely belonged to Cynthia Geer who was initiated into Alpha Chapter in 1958. How would she have gotten by without buying a standard badge? Might she have been a descendant of a founder or early member and have inherited a non-standard badge?
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That clasp isn't from 1958. I have one that looks like that and it's from the teens.
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10-19-2011, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
That clasp isn't from 1958. I have one that looks like that and it's from the teens.
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Exactly why the back of the badge/pin is just as important as the front, and why the original engraving should be maintained whenever possible, IMO. What stories are told by the backs of our jewelry!
Perhaps the name on the back was not the original owner - and the person had the other name buffed out and hers added. We shall never know.
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10-19-2011, 01:29 PM
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That opal badge is gorgeous. Does AGD have a collection of rare pins at their HQ? Wonder if they have one like that?
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10-23-2011, 08:49 PM
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Now that the auction is over I'll try and remember to post some of what I tracked down for the non Alpha Gams, just some details that I picked up.
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10-24-2011, 10:51 PM
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Now that the auction is over I'll try and remember to post some of what I tracked down for the non Alpha Gams, just some details that I picked up.
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Come on Vandal!! The non AGDs are waiting for some info!
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10-26-2011, 12:55 PM
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I am very disappointed if this doesn't end up at the AGD HQ. How could they pass this up?!
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10-19-2011, 02:57 PM
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There was a C G Geer at Weseyan University in 1906-1908.
AGD had chapter at the school according to the Bairds Manuals.
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I also found this online:
http://www.archive.org/stream/bullet...luoft_djvu.txt
I found a possible match to the owner's badge, Geer, Charlotte G.,
'03, Stockbridge, Mass. She graduated from Wesleyan in
1903...obviously AGD was founded in 1904. So perhaps she went to
graduate school and that 3 is really an 8? Or maybe she was a charter member of the chapter there and they put her graduation date from college instead of her initiation year? I also google mapped the seller's location to Stockbridge, MA and it's about 14 miles away.
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10-19-2011, 05:47 PM
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Wow...this badge gets more and more interesting. It needs to go to AGD HQ.
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10-19-2011, 06:36 PM
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Wow...this badge gets more and more interesting. It needs to go to AGD HQ.
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I am sure hoping that AGD HQ has been notified & they are one of the bidders on this beautiful piece of what looks to be AGD's early history...
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10-20-2011, 01:44 AM
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The design looks like one of the first badges made by a local jeweler. Note that the Gamma is not "chased" (engraved) the way the standard badges are.
The eBay listing Q&A section says that the badge likely belonged to Cynthia Geer who was initiated into Alpha Chapter in 1958. How would she have gotten by without buying a standard badge? Might she have been a descendant of a founder or early member and have inherited a non-standard badge?
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You're receiving a PM from me, but I bet the big squirrels and IHQ know what I figured out 
Hopefully I'll be able to share with the rest of you what I know.
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10-20-2011, 07:23 AM
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You're receiving a PM from me, but I bet the big squirrels and IHQ know what I figured out
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VS, I got your PM and tried to PM you back but the system said it didn't go through....
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10-20-2011, 09:43 AM
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Exqueeze me? Where is my PM?
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10-20-2011, 07:22 PM
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Me 3, sis!! 
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10-20-2011, 09:22 PM
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VS, I got your PM and tried to PM you back but the system said it didn't go through....
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Exqueeze me? Where is my PM?
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Me 3, sis!! |
Sorry, even though I enabled PMs they were enabled for "but a chosen few" meaning people I let into my circle.
So AGDAlum, was any of that useful information?
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