This is a very rare and extremely well made badge from the ending years of WWII. The piece is 1-13/16” in silvered brass with highly detailed front and with heavy bar pin reverse. Front has high relief of a woman with scenes to the left and right including father and son playing with a dog and a woman at the front of her home. A ribbon design lower center has large text “Home Legion” with smaller rim text “Presented For Distinguished Service In Home Making.” This badge was created as part of a program headed by Marjorie Child Husted who was the Director Of The Home Service Department within General Mills and she became the woman behind the Betty Crocker brand. Betty Crocker was hugely popular and hosted radio shows and answered millions of letters from women with questions about health, nutrition and home making. In 1944 Husted created the Betty Crocker American Home Legion Program to give credit and stimulus to women working in solitude in their own homes or doing double duty serving in both war plants and as home makers. They published a “Home Makers’ Creed” and some 700,000 women joined with many proudly framing and hanging the Creed on their kitchen wall. In addition, although we do not know how it was acquired, is this handsome badge for “Distinguished Service.” Tiniest bit of silvering loss. Rare and Exc. and the only example we’ve offered.