1929 Delegate Pin?

jwp1964 · Nov 5, 2018

Need help to ID Pin I found at 1930s school.

Blue enamel says Delegate Milwaukee 1929 on front and Robbins Co, Attleboro on back. I have the company info, but trying to ID organization on Pin.

Thanks for any assistance.

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Walknstik · Nov 5, 2018

My guess is....the wearer of that pin you found was a delegate at a democratic political convention held in Milwaukee, Wis. in 1929.? Held up fairly nice for being dug although the back pin broke off...Cool find!

jwp1964 · Nov 5, 2018

Walknstik said:
My guess is....the wearer of that pin you found was a delegate at a democratic political convention held in Milwaukee, Wis. in 1929.? Held up fairly nice for being dug although the back pin broke off...Cool find!

Thanks for the info.

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matmit · Nov 5, 2018

Nice pin. It is rather unusual that it did not contain more information. :?:

BullBat · Nov 5, 2018

It appears that these pins were issued to delegates from various cities who were to attend a national convention somewhere. Here is a pin for a Denver delegate five years earlier... https://www.ebay.ie/itm/VINTAGE-DEL...-CONVENTION-/352486653134?hash=item5211d77cce

jwp1964 · Nov 5, 2018

BullBat said:
It appears that these pins were issued to delegates from various cities who were to attend a national convention somewhere. Here is a pin for a Denver delegate five years earlier... https://www.ebay.ie/itm/VINTAGE-DEL...-CONVENTION-/352486653134?hash=item5211d77cce

Thanks!

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Jamflicker · Nov 6, 2018

Can't help on the ID but thats a cool find.

jwp1964 · Nov 6, 2018

Jamflicker said:
Can't help on the ID but thats a cool find.

Thanks Jam. Always fun to try to solve a mystery.

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Bilgemaster · Nov 10, 2018

I believe that what you may have found there is a Kiwanis Club International Delegate pin from their 1929 Milwaukee Convention, since they also had a convention in Denver in 1924, a very similar pin from which is already mentioned in this thread. This link will take one to an image linking to a little booklet called, Kiwanis in Brief from the early '30s. Click the image, open the PDF, and scroll to page 7 for a list of conventions by date and their locations.

This rather bizarre photo of some of the Milwaukee attendees can be found in the special collections archive of the Indiana University IUPAI Library Digital Collections. Presumably, that radiantly glowing fellow at the desk is just beaming in from the Enterprise or maybe some other dimension to approve the Awards Dinner menu selection...Either that, or his aftershave is just WAY too intense:

jwp1964 · Nov 10, 2018

Bilgemaster said:
I believe that what you may have found there is a Kiwanis Club International Delegate pin from their 1929 Milwaukee Convention, since they also had a convention in Denver in 1924, a very similar pin from which is already mentioned in this thread. This link will take one to an image linking to a little booklet called, Kiwanis in Brief from the early '30s. Click the image, open the PDF, and scroll to page 7 for a list of conventions by date and their locations.

This rather bizarre photo of some of the Milwaukee attendees can be found in the special collections archive of the Indiana University IUPAI Library Digital Collections. Presumably, that glowing fellow at the desk is just beaming in from the Enterprise or maybe some other dimension to approve the Awards Dinner menu selection...

Thanks for the info!

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matmit · Nov 10, 2018

I believe that what you may have found there is a Kiwanis Club International Delegate pin from their 1929 Milwaukee Convention, since they also had a convention in Denver in 1924, a very similar pin from which is already mentioned in this thread.

This rather bizarre photo of some of the Milwaukee attendees can be found in the special collections archive of the Indiana University IUPAI Library Digital Collections. Presumably, that radiantly glowing fellow at the desk is just beaming in from the Enterprise or maybe some other dimension to approve the Awards Dinner menu selection...Either that, or his aftershave is just WAY too intense:

Great research!
Bizarre is truly the only way to describe that photo

Walknstik · Nov 10, 2018

He entered a portal from Orion to earth in order to attend the ceremony. What an aura that alien is putting out! Nice research!

WyoTom · Nov 10, 2018

Very cool find JW. Great research guys!

Bilgemaster · Nov 10, 2018

Walknstik said:
He entered a portal from Orion to earth in order to attend the ceremony. What an aura that alien is putting out! Nice research!

Thanks for the kudos! Sure, you can jest about those "close encounters," but then there's this recent issue of Kiwanis Magazine to give one pause...

In other current affairs...

dickn52 · Nov 11, 2018

Probably just voted again in Florida.

Walknstik · Nov 12, 2018

Bilgemaster I didn't word my comments correctly above as it was not meant in a joking way. I'm one of those that think there are a LOT of unexplained accomplishments by different cultures in past world history :>)

drawsing · Nov 12, 2018

Before Photoshop there was the airbrush. They needed a white background for this guy.

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