Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Saratoga Co. Veterans Assoc. Ribbon
1906-1907
Whitehead & Hoag Co.
USA: New Jersey, Newark
Silk, paper, metal, ink
overall: 5-1/4"h x 2"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Jacques Noel Jacobsen, Jr. in Memory of Brother Jacques Noel Jacobsen, Sr.
2016.029.2

Saratoga Co. Veterans Assoc. Ribbon. OBVERSE: Smooth silk ribbon features three vertical stripes in red, white, and blue (from PR to PL), with folded over top stamped with decorative design in faded gold ink, and bottom frayed. Body of ribbon features stamped text in gold ink: "27TH ANNUAL / REUNION / SARATOGA CO. / VETERANS / ASSOCIATION / [vine-like flourish] / SARATOGA SPRINGS / 1907". REVERSE: Gold-colored metal pin, 2-3/8" long, is oriented vertically down the center of the ribbon, and hooked into folded-over top, inside of which it forms stiff horizontal top bar. Below this is square white paper manufacturer's label, 1-3/4"h x 2"w, bearing text printed in black ink: "THIS BADGE MANUFACTURED BY / The Whitehead & Hoag Co. / MAKERS OF / BADGES, BUTTONS, BANNERS, SIGNS / AND ADVERTISING NOVELTIES. / Main Office and Factory, - - NEWARK, N. J. / ALL GOODS GUARANTEED UNION MADE. / Typographical Union No. 103; Bookbinders and Stampers No. / 62; Printing Pressmen No. 31; Feeders and Ass't Pressmen No. 19; / Lithographers No. 1; Carpenters and Joiners No. 119 and No. 120 / Brass Polishers and Buffers No. 44; Photo Engravers No. 28; / Toolmakers No. 350; National Lithograph Artists, Engravers and / Designers League of [oval logo, "ALLIED PRINTING / TRADE UNION COUNCIL / NEWARK N.J."] America; Stationary En. / gineers No. 68; National [same logo interrupts this line as well] Brotherhood Electrical / Workers No. 52; International Litho. Press Feeders and Appren- / tices Union No. 1; International Brotherhood Stationary Firemens / Local No. 55; Newark Steam and Hot Water Filters Association / No. 40; Litho. Stone Grinders No. 1; Painters and Decorators / Union No. 26 / [line] / BADGE BAR PAT'D OCT. 18TH, 1892, MARCH 7TH, 1893. / WAVING FLAG, JUNE 14TH, 1892. MEDALLION PAT'D JUNE 12TH, 1894. / MARCH 5TH, 1895, JUNE 12TH, 1896. / OTHER PATENTS GRANTED AND PENDING."