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10-19-2011, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by lleduc
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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10-20-2011, 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
Hopefully I'll be able to share with the rest of you what I know.
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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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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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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!! 
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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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10-23-2011, 05:45 AM
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Wow! I hope an AGD wins this one.
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10-23-2011, 10:27 AM
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crashing to comment on the badge back: I would love to hear from someone about the clasp. Specifically, is that a typical clasp for the age of the badge?
I wish there were better pictures of the back. This is why I say that the back is just as interesting as the front, and that it's so important not to buff off the engraving on badges.
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10-23-2011, 08:05 PM
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Looks like a new bidder swooped in at the last second & scooped the badge up for $510. Any chance we can find out if this was AGD headquarters, an AGD sister or a pin collecter?
I HATE that this site won't divulge bidders anymore. I hate to bid on any historical Theta items for fear I am bidding against HQ.
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10-23-2011, 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by thetalady
Looks like a new bidder swooped in at the last second & scooped the badge up for $510. Any chance we can find out if this was AGD headquarters, an AGD sister or a pin collecter?
I HATE that this site won't divulge bidders anymore. I hate to bid on any historical Theta items for fear I am bidding against HQ.
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Re: the bolded. You can call HQ and ask. You can email as well. It's often useful to let them know if there is something unique or specific that might be of interest to the Fraternity.
I expect other fraternities would have people available (i.e. historian/archivist) who could be contacted.
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10-23-2011, 11:33 PM
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Re: the bolded. You can call HQ and ask. You can email as well. It's often useful to let them know if there is something unique or specific that might be of interest to the Fraternity.
I expect other fraternities would have people available (i.e. historian/archivist) who could be contacted.
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What a brilliantly simple idea...
smacks self in the head for not thinking of this earlier!!
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10-24-2011, 09:07 AM
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Quote:
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I HATE that this site won't divulge bidders anymore. I hate to bid on any historical Theta items for fear I am bidding against HQ.
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Re: the bolded. You can call HQ and ask. You can email as well. It's often useful to let them know if there is something unique or specific that might be of interest to the Fraternity.
I expect other fraternities would have people available (i.e. historian/archivist) who could be contacted.
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I know that when we've had significant things up on that site, a notice has gone out on the list-serve that HQ is bidding so that everyone on the list knows not to.
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10-24-2011, 10:27 AM
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I'm hoping, since AGDAlum posted it on our Facebook page that someone close to the top picked it up for the IHQ badge collection. In looking at the bidding history of the winner though, I think it is a collector
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10-31-2011, 10:26 AM
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VandalSquirrel, you are amazing! I like "detective work" and you have a talent in that area, for sure.
As for dates on badges, here's what I did with my new onyx badge: I had "ABC" "BD" and 4-1-11 engraved on the back of it. None of those initials would make sense to anyone else. ABC=Advisory Board Chairman BD = Beta Delta (chapter at UofA) and the date is my official appointment date. I made provisions for the badge upon my demise so it should never end up on any auction site. Still, the explanation will accompany the badge and it may end up lost so someday, there might be another GCer researching the weird engraving on an onyx badge.
You'd think I would have had second thoughts, being appointed on April First. One day I'll tell the tale of my first year as an ABC (if I make it that long).
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