Badge
- Object Name:
- Badge
- Object ID:
- 2007.023.05
- Creator:
- Whitehead Hoag Company
- Place of Origin:
- Newark, NJ
- Date:
- circa 1930
- Description:
- Odd Fellows badge, owned by Clarence L. Webster (1882-1969) of Merrimack, NH. Two-part cast bronze badge with red silk ribbon. Upper part is triangular with Odd Fellows symbols (eye and three linked rings) and text: "SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE / I.O.O.F. / BOSTON 1920"; pin on back. Lower part is suspended from ribbon and has circular medallion picturing "THE / OLD MAN / OF THE / MOUNTAINS"; below medallion is a laurel wreath and "DISTRICT 7"; reverse embossed "THE WHITEHEAD HOAG CO. / NEWARK.NJ."
- Material:
- Metal
Bronze
Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-3.8 W-1.7 inches
- Provenance:
- Owned by Clarence L. Webster (1882-1969) of Merrimack, NH, a Boston Maine Railroad station agent and telegraph operator at the Reed's Ferry station in Merrimack. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. Souhegan Lodge in Merrimack for 64 years.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Janice Webster Brown
- People:
- Webster, Clarence L. (1882-1969)
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