Badge

Object Name:

Badge

Object ID:

2003.018

Creator:

Fuller Regalia Costume Co.

Place of Origin:

Worcester, MA

Date:

circa 1910

Description:

Fraternal Badge. Blue silk with silver lettering: "FITZWILLIAM / GRANGE / NO. 154 / FITZWILLIAM, N.H." with clasped hands. Overlapping red, white and blue silk with 1.2" diam. metal button attached. Button has paper insert with colored printed image of Grange symbols and words "PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY", under clear plastic. Symbols include plow, clasped hands, crooks, rake, sheaf of wheat, key, and sickle. Brass pin at top with printed celluloid insert: "STEWARD P. OF H." and design of leaves and crossed sticks. Pin is removable so it can be reversed to display mourning ribbon. Gold braid at bottom. Reverse is black silk with silver lettering: "In Memorium / P OF H / FITZWILLIAM / GRANGE / NO. 154 / FITZWILLIAM, N.H." with clasped hands. Printed paper label sewn inside between blue and black ribbons: "MADE BY / Fuller Regalia Costume Co. / TRADE MARK / DORWARD / WORCESTER, MASS."

Material:

Textile
Metal
Silk
Paper

Dimensions:

H-8.3 W-2.4 D-0.3 inches

Provenance:

Probably given to donor by one of his students in history department at Ithaca College.

Credit Line:

Gift of David S. McKeith

Subjects:

Badges, Buttons, Fraternal organizations, Grange, Hands, Keys (Hardware), Leaves, Plows, Rakes, Ribbon badges, Ribbons, Scythes Sickles, Sheaves, Sticks, Symbols