Rescuing Badges

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
Very very few, if any, GLOs actually do this.

If there is one, I would love to know who it is.............

And yes, has ISUKappa said, the majority of badges that end up on ebay have been lost or stolen that is a fact so no, 99.99% of them are not from deceased members. If you are going to try to spout facts, be sure you know them first........

[Deltazeta4ever]

[QUOTE=SmartBlondeGPhB]If there is one, I would love to know who it is............. [QUOTE=SmartBlondeGPhB]

Delta Zeta reimburses up to $50.00 for resuced badges. I've rescued quite a few and donated the money to the Delta Zeta Foundation.

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
That's standard practice across the board of GLOs.

No, actually it's standard policy across the board. It's rarely the practice across the board.........

[Tom Earp]

mcellpe


This is no way slamming collectors!

Yes, LXA has a policy in place for Badges.. It happens, Badges are put out for bids.

Most if any INTERNATIONALS or Nationals can afford to either buy them or bid for them.

As I have stated, The Collectors that I know reveare BADGES as a thing of beauty and keep them in better shape than the original owner.

For the fire brand new Members who even have Badges, ask some of your long lost Alums if they have theirs or know where they are? Oh, try what their Initation #s are.

I know many of My Brothers who over the years have lost them!

I have sold one to a Brother in the same situation, and I have donated Badges for an Auction of My Chapter.

Some I hold special for the Memebers who owned them.

When I die, it is all going back to either My Chapter or IHQ. But, it is still within My Fraternity. That is just me!

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by SmartBlondeGPhB
No, actually it's standard policy across the board. It's rarely the practice across the board.........

Yes, I had my nomenclature mixed up.

[kappa2]

Yes, let's not rip on CutiePie here, we're all just trying our best!

I think that the reason why so many badges get stolen is because it is an easy steal. Thefts often happen in such a manner that the owners aren't aware. The most common way to steal in the last year has been to head straight for the jewelry box, grab a handful, and leave before anyone is the wiser and it could be months before anyone is missing. I had a theft where they stole several outfits (can you imagine that they tried them on first? YUK!!), but left most my clothes & shoes (was I not their size?). They stole most of the real jewelry, but left everything junky in the jewelry drawer as well as everything like our DVD players, etc.

Theives are becoming more aware of the risks and choose what to steal accordingly....

[Stef the Pef]

Originally Posted by kappa2

Yes, let's not rip on CutiePie here, we're all just trying our best!

I think that the reason why so many badges get stolen is because it is an easy steal. Thefts often happen in such a manner that the owners aren't aware. The most common way to steal in the last year has been to head straight for the jewelry box, grab a handful, and leave before anyone is the wiser and it could be months before anyone is missing. I had a theft where they stole several outfits (can you imagine that they tried them on first? YUK!!), but left most my clothes & shoes (was I not their size?). They stole most of the real jewelry, but left everything junky in the jewelry drawer as well as everything like our DVD players, etc.

Theives are becoming more aware of the risks and choose what to steal accordingly....

This is why I keep a locked box and hide it somewhere. It may be convenient to keep it on the dresser, but I know it's fairly safe hidden somewhere else in the room and it's become routine for me to get into it from its hidden spot.

[JonoBN41]

What's the longest a badge has gone missing before being found and returned to its original owner?

Are there very many success stories regarding long-lost badges being rescued?

Jono

[Tom Earp]

Great Question and I got one back to DZ.

I know what Badge You are refering to and is Admiriable!

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by JonoBN41
What's the longest a badge has gone missing before being found and returned to its original owner?

Are there very many success stories regarding long-lost badges being rescued?

Jono

I think most badges are never returned to the original owner.

But yes, we have a number of success stories of badges being returned to the original ownere as well as MANY stories of badges that have been rescued and returned to our museum as historical.

[ISUKappa]

I've heard at least two stories of badges having gone missing or stolen in the '40s or '50s that were later returned to their rightful owners in the late '90s and early 2000s.

[Denise_DPhiE]

Originally posted by JonoBN41
What's the longest a badge has gone missing before being found and returned to its original owner?

Are there very many success stories regarding long-lost badges being rescued?

Jono

Fifty eight years and we both know the success story

Are you gonna share?!?!

[kdonline]

Mine was stolen 13 years ago. I guess I shouldn't give up hope.

[JonoBN41]

Hope that it show up on ebay. That's pretty much the only way you'll ever find it again - assuming, of course, you had it engraved. Never give up hope.

[OleMissGlitter]

Last year at an Ole Miss football game a Phi Kappa Psi badge was found from the 1960s. It was returned to the owner, he apparently hadn't seen it since then. The office I use to work in on campus was given the badge and we were lucky enough to contact the alumnus so he could pick it up.

I lost mine about 8 years ago, I have my great-grandmother's AOII badge from 1924, but I'm still hopeful mine will show up on Ebay or other sites one day.