REDMEN (7) BADGES WITH NATIVE AMERICANS PLUS FIVE CONESTOGA WAGON BADGES.
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Winning Bid:
$157.06
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
Buttons are .5" to 1.75". Five of the pieces are celluloid buttons picturing Native Americans and issued by the fraternal group Improved Order Of Red Men. In addition to the buttons there is a 11/16" enamel on brass lapel stud with threaded post reverse and a silver luster 3.5" tall badge showing Native American in canoe with war implements below. Group initials are on the side of the canoe along with "Freedom/Friendship & Charity." The earliest button, c. 1910, at the upper left has .5" hairline cello split by the reverse collet and a few tiny age dots but still wonderful color. Other buttons are c. 1920s with the exception of the one issued for "Bellingham 1941." Next four buttons all picture a Conestoga wagon. These are c. 1930s with one dated for 1936 and with two of them making a reference to the year 1849. Last is a Red Man convention ribbon from 1916. Chain links suspend brass frame, which holds a real photo celluloid showing and titled "Conestoga Wagon." Celluloid has a tin back and is held into the frame by tabs. Issued for "Conestoga Center, Pa." lodge. Tiny age traces on the ribbon but the celluloid is NM and the only real photo cello we know of picturing a Conestoga wagon.
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