✅ SOLVED Help Identifying Maker's Mark / Hallmark / Stamp

[Trash404]

Hello, I recently found a bunch of older pins.... All except this one I can identify as Masonic, but this one I am not sure about.

A. I am not sure what it's related to, but I don't think it's any fraternal group. Does the front design look familiar to anyone?

B. Does anyone know any details about the hallmark on the back?

Thank you in advance for any guidance &/or information! It is greatly appreciated

 

[Red-Coat]

That’s an interesting headscratcher. I don’t recognise the maker mark, which is not a hallmark as such. I checked for trademark registrations in the US and couldn’t find it. However, I have an idea what the pin might have been for.

The Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) yearbook published as ‘The Kaldron’ makes numerous references to the ‘Klee-O-Kleet club’, although note that it’s hyphenated. I think we can forgive the discrepancy that it’s not hyphenated on your pin.

It seems to have been an amateur dramatics club in the college and there are citations for various students at the college being members of the club and performing in what are referred to as the ‘Klee-O-Kleet plays’ which seem to have been of a light-hearted comedic nature. This one for example, from the 1922 edition:

 

[Red-Coat]

Also referred to in the 1919 edition of the college’s ‘Official Organ Of Kappa Kappa Gamma’ published as ‘The Key’, without the hyphens: