Odd Fellows Early 20th Century Memorial Ribbon, Pin Japanese broom blue trees against yellow sky

blue trees against yellow sky and green and pink rolling hills

It is signed -- once below the text

often commanding many hundreds of dollars

which is unmarked--providing no clue as to the maker of the glove

Once a common practice in southeast Asia

Odd Fellows Early 20th Century Memorial Ribbon, Pin Japanese broom blue trees against yellow skyThe International Order of Odd Fellows (I. O. O. F) certainly has had a gift for designing compelling iconography, and this memorial ribbon from the Powow River Lodge in Amesbury, MA features two of its best, with the gold bordered "handshake" pin at top and "all seeing eye" at center. Those waving flags between the two are pretty good too. I am pretty certain this one dates to the turn of the century around the heyday of the I. O. O. F, when it was