Badge, Membership
Object number2007.81.4
Date1899
MediumSilk; various metals; ink
Credit LineGift of United Lutheran Society
DescriptionRectangular fraternal convention badge. Brass pin; front in shape of two shaking hands. Short looped blue silk ribbon attached to bottom of pin, connects to sun-shaped cardboard with silver metallic sequence and coils; rises in center; two silver metallic coiled tassels hang from edges. Red, white, and blue silk ribbon with text. Silver coiled fringe at bottom. Dark blue silk ribbon attached to top ribbon, text written in gold. Silver coiled fringe and tassel on bottom edge. Backside: same silver sun-shaped decoration as above. Black silk ribbon with silver screen printed text, same wording as other side. Silver and gold fringe.Dimensions4 x 12 in. (10.2 x 30.5 cm)InscriptionsRed, white, and blue silk ribbon with, "SPOLOK / SLOVENSKEJ / Evanjelickej Jednoty".
Dark blue silk ribbon attached to top ribbon, written in gold, "KAROL KUZMANY / Cislo 53 S.E.J. [accent over C] / [chalice] / Zal. Dna 21HO Oktobra 1899 [accent over first A and N] / DUQUESNE, PA."
Backside: Black silk ribbon with silver screen printed text, same wording as other side.
Historical NotesThe Slovak Evangelical Union held their fifth convention meeting in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in June of 1899, when this ribbon was probably used. The United Lutheran Society was formed in 1962 when the Slovak Evangelical Slovak Church Union of the Augsburg Confession in America, founded in 1893, and the Evangelical Slovak Women's Union, organized in 1906, merged. This fraternal benefit society is now open to all persons of the Lutheran faith and provides life and health insurance. It is headquartered in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.
Previous owner
United Lutheran Society
Related institution
Slovak Evangelical Union
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c. 1893
