Shriners Pins, Oddfellows Pins, Masons Pins--Where best to look in the USA for these? (collector, train)
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I collect old Shriners pins, Oddfellows pins, Masons pins, pins of various unions and sororities/fraternities. Anything, as long as it's SMALL (1/4" to 1/2") and OLD (pre-1975 or so).
I have shopped out all the deals on ebay, altho I admit ebay is probably the best all-in-one place for these.
I want to go on a trip and find out-of-the-way pawn and thrift shops where I could find this kind of thing. I suspect states like Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, where there are more people who don't relocate as much, would have some nice dusty old shops. Not looking for trendy anything. West and East Coasts are too hip.
Does anyone know? Looking for old shops with bad lighting on poor abandoned streets, with old grouchy clerks.
As a coin collector who often finds himself looking through the same bins that contain what you collect, I would vote for antique places in the Midwest, in towns big enough to have (or have had) fraternal lodges, but not big enough to have that much other entertainment. Many smaller Midwestern towns have seen population declines in the last century, with fraternal lodges becoming constrained in support and availability, and lots of estate sales for grandmas who still had grandpa's old Mason stuff and had never given much consideration to where it should go.
I collect old Shriners pins, Oddfellows pins, Masons pins, pins of various unions and sororities/fraternities. Anything, as long as it's SMALL (1/4" to 1/2") and OLD (pre-1975 or so).
Does anyone know? Looking for old shops with bad lighting on poor abandoned streets, with old grouchy clerks.
Where are you located? I see plenty of what you are looking for in antique shops in NH.
I have my GF Masonic 50 year pin, and my father's 30 year union pin. For that matter, I also have my own Beta Alpha Psi pin. I wouldn't get rid of them for anything (perhaps a million?). They're so little, anyways, anyone at my age would need a magnifying glass just to see them
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