Fraternal Groups & Societies Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: 1920's – 1930's Velodrome Cycling Racing Club member lapel pin. C (Century?) Cycling Club. Velodrome cycling takes place on an oval track and the bicycles do not have any brakes. The velodrome cycling was established as an Olympic Sport in...

ARTIFACT: This is a 14 karat membership badge for the Pike Family Association with an ancestor bar reading Major Robert Pike. Bar at top of ribbon reads MASSACHUSETTS and blue enamel pin at center reads PIKE FAMILY ASSOCIATION 1900. VINTAGE: Circa WWII...

ARTIFACT: This is a 14 karat gold membership badge for the Daughters of the American Revolution society with various named ancestor bars. A banner at the top of the pin reads LUCY KNOX CHAPTER. The Daughters of the American Revolution is a non-profit...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful 1933 membership document for the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. This document was issued to Earl Kendall (Van) Swearingen, United States Navy aviator and later commander of the USS Izard (DD-589) during...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1890s planchet for the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812 in 14 karat gold. The society was begun in 1892 as a sorority for women with ancestors who served in either the military or civil service or...

ARTIFACT: This is a 14 karat bar pin for the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. The bars list ancestors ENOCH HUTCHINS, SGT. JONATHAN HUTCHINS, JR., BENJAMIN HUTCHINS, JOHN WAKEFIELD AND WILLIAM WAKEFIELD. Founded in 1898, The Daughters of...

ARTIFACT: This is a 14 karat association medal for the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. A star-shaped medallion hangs from a red, white and blue ribbon. Founded in 1898, The Daughters of Founders and Patriots of organization requires its...

ARTIFACT: This is a vintage shoulder patch for American Youth Hostels (AYH), a group started in 1934 in Northfield, Massachusetts. The group was modeled after the German concept from decades earlier of giving young people a pastoral outlet to escape the...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s lapel pin for the Greater Beneficial Union (Deutscher Unterst-tzungs Bund), a German-American fraternal organization started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 189The pin is nicely enameled in blue and white and has a rather...

ARTIFACT: This is an Improved Order of Redmen representative medal from the Wahpatuck Tribe of Massachusetts numbered 54 in its original case. The Improved Order of Redmen was founded as a fraternal society in Baltimore in 183The medal has two enameled...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 key fob for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The fob is engraved with the name B.F. MUGRIDGE, and an address of 71 STATE ST., PORTSMOUTH, N.H. At the top of the fob is the society's logo...

ARTIFACT: This is a great old badge for the "United Order of the Golden Cross" fraternal society, a group organized by the Freemasons that admitted both men and women who pledged to abstain from imbibing alcohol. The medal is from the Bradford,...