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05-31-2013, 12:18 AM
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WOW!! The emeralds on that Chi O badge are gorgeous! Really stands out so beautifully. Too bad that is no longer an option.
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05-31-2013, 12:32 AM
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1904 Emerald Badge of Lucille Gibson Hopkins, the 8th initiate of Chi Chapter of Chi Omega at Transylvania University (KY). Donated to the HQ by her granddaughter. It wasn't until 1906 that a vote was taken at Convention to only allow pearls & diamonds in the Chi Omega badge. This is an extremely rare and very precious gift.
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That is amazing. How lucky that her family chose to return it to HQ!
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05-31-2013, 10:02 AM
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Oh my gosh, that rose gold, stick-pin badge is GORGEOUS! I would love to see Gamma Phi do a rose gold badge!!
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We have the rose gold chased/engraved badge. One of my alumnae chapter sisters has it and it's very pretty.
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05-31-2013, 11:58 AM
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That is amazing. How lucky that her family chose to return it to HQ!
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Absolutely!! Now, thousands of members will get to enjoy it.
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05-31-2013, 01:55 PM
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I'm old school, I know, but I can't abide the use of CZs in nice jewelry.
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I'm right there with you. I can't stand that. In the late 90s, I ordered a jeweled badge and was surprised to receive one with lab created sapphires instead of real ones, though the jeweler's brochure hadn't mentioned the stones were fake. I brought it up to them, and they did fix my badge and all subsequent brochures mentioned the lab created stones. But I'm sad that ADPi (and others) have gone that route. I don't even think they have a real stone option for ADPi badges. Some groups were still using real stones 10 years or so ago, but I'm guessing more are going the fake route.
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05-31-2013, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by honeychile
lady-elsinore = hbrieholmes, then. They're all listed on "that site". I recognized a few of the pins as ones that were sniped from under me. The prices are roughly double that for which they sold on ebay, too.
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I know this is a super old post, but I'd Googled for something unrelated earlier today and ran across it and wanted to clarify that hbrieholmes is not me. I am an ADPi (Phi Chapter--last one to be chartered as ADPhi before the name change!), and the badges I bought are because I love our pin and wanted to save them. I haven't bought any pins on ebay since 2001 or 2002, so unless you were bidding on the 1926 Phi pin or the 1964 Gamma Xi at that time, I probably didn't snipe anything from under you.  Hope you are well!
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05-31-2013, 02:10 PM
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Oh...that's so sad.  The way she described them I was thinking that she avidly wore them on a regular basis.
Baci: I noticed that too! The price jumped extremely fast... |
I do Well, perhaps not "regular" since I have less occasion to wear them these days, but I do avidly wear them. I just wore the 1926 Phi pin to Phi's 100th birthday celebration in April, actually.
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05-31-2013, 05:36 PM
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The worst to me, than most synthetic lab created stones, are the synthetic opals. Ick!
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05-31-2013, 07:19 PM
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Totally agree! Fake opals look like glitter mixed in elmers glue.
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05-31-2013, 08:30 PM
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Xidelt you must have seen he same ones I saw. And others look like there is rainbow clear Mylar crinkled into the clear substrate.
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05-31-2013, 08:37 PM
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Squee! Getting a new key soon! Will post a photo when it arrives. I have to share here because my husband and daughter Could. Not. Care. Less. In fact, my daughter thinks sapphires are ugly (oh dear!). She wanted to know why I didn't get red, her favorite color. So in about a decade, we may have a PNM who chooses a group because they have red as their color. Sigh.
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06-01-2013, 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Elsinore
I know this is a super old post, but I'd Googled for something unrelated earlier today and ran across it and wanted to clarify that hbrieholmes is not me. I am an ADPi (Phi Chapter--last one to be chartered as ADPhi before the name change!), and the badges I bought are because I love our pin and wanted to save them. I haven't bought any pins on ebay since 2001 or 2002, so unless you were bidding on the 1926 Phi pin or the 1964 Gamma Xi at that time, I probably didn't snipe anything from under you. Hope you are well!
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There are times when I'm glad to be proved wrong! Good to see you posting again - my DH almost went to Hanover! I'm so glad that I got my pin(s) prior to that awful lab-created nonsense, too!
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06-01-2013, 01:37 AM
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There are times when I'm glad to be proved wrong! Good to see you posting again - my DH almost went to Hanover! I'm so glad that I got my pin(s) prior to that awful lab-created nonsense, too!
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Oh wow, small world given how small a school it is! It was a great place to be Greek. Even then I was the nerd geeking out over the page in our Alpha manual with all the pictures of the different NPC pins or sitting in the House livingroom reading our old Bairds manuals or visiting my Big Diamond's room to read through Ritual (she was the Guard at one point). It's funny, cause I'm not that big into jewelry in general, but I absolutely love the design and history of GLO badges (but especially ours, of course  )
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06-01-2013, 02:53 AM
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Squee! Getting a new key soon! Will post a photo when it arrives. I have to share here because my husband and daughter Could. Not. Care. Less. In fact, my daughter thinks sapphires are ugly (oh dear!). She wanted to know why I didn't get red, her favorite color. So in about a decade, we may have a PNM who chooses a group because they have red as their color. Sigh.
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May I suggest a group close to my heart with a little red stone at the apex of an A? 
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06-01-2013, 07:26 AM
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May I suggest a group close to my heart with a little red stone at the apex of an A? |
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