Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

True Ivorites Badge, DYFED Lodge No. 57
1892-1920
Whitehead & Hoag Co.
USA: New Jersey, Newark
Metal, silk, bullion, plastic, paper, ink
8"h x 3"w x 1/2"d
Gift of Beth Jacobsen
2020.022.9

True Ivorites Badge, DYFED Lodge No. 57. Gold-colored cast metal pin bar at top of badge has overall rectangular shape with decorative scrollwork border around; inside it, a white plastic-coated insert has image of two clasped hands inside it, with blue sleeves and peach-colored skin. Suspended from pin bar are two gold chains which hold a rectangular white plastic bar which reads "MEMBER" in black with a black border. Suspended from this via two gold-colored metal chains is a circular cast gold-colored metal medallion with a decorative openwork cast gold border; central applied disk is of white plastic (possibly) with an image printed on it in black of True Ivorites emblem (several figures around a shield, with all-seeing eye and spread-winged eagle within radiating rays above; below, the text "URDD Y GUIR FOR AID / AMERICANIADD". Behind this, also suspended from top pin bar, is double silk ribbon, the front one of which is black and has "DYFED / LODGE, NO. 57 / TRUE IVORITES / [decorative line] / ROME, N. Y." stamped in silver ink. At bottom of ribbon, stamped silver ink zig-zag border and gold-colored bullion fringe; ribbon trimmed on both sides with gold metallic thread border. On reverse, back ribbon is light blue with gold text stamped on it, "DYFED / LODGE, NO. 57 / TRUE IVORITES / [decorative line] / ROME, N. Y.". At bottom of ribbon, stamped gold ink zig zag border.