Mystery Symbol. Any Ideas?

[gemee]

Found this old sterling pin and it appears to be from around the 1920's. Any idea as to the symbol on it?

 

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[Alchemy]

Fraternity pin of some kind? (though, it looks like a tie clip...what's the back look like?)
Does it have any markings on it, on the back?
It's got that hammered Roy Croft, or Scheibler kind of look to it, yet somewhat home made looking too

 

[gemee]

Yes it does look like a tie clasp or pin, but it is definitely a brooch or pin. Has the old C type clasp. No markings, but sterling. I wonder if this was a woman's brooch of some fraternal order?

 

[gemee]

In looking at my picture, it kind of looks like an "I" and a overlapping "C".

 

[LadyDigger]

From research, this is the best I could find:

"...Women's organizations also formed contemporaneously: the Adelphean Society (now Alpha Delta Pi) was established in 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, making it the first secret society for collegiate women. The Philomathean Society (not associated with the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania) was also founded at Wesleyan College in 1852, and I.C. Sorosis (later renamed Pi Beta Phi) was founded in 1867 at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois. The Adelphean Society and the Philomathean Society did not take on their modern Greek names (Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu, respectively) until 1904 when they took on expansion beyond the Wesleyan campus..."

When trying to research, Pi Beta Phi always came up....and then I found the above...maybe it's a female pin. Just a thought.

 

[gemee]

Thanks! I found a good site for fraternal emblems, but I will have to look at it later, as I am leaving now; http://www.cyndislist.com/soc-frat.htm

 

[KILLER Tn]

Looks tarnished to me , probably a fake .

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks tarnished to me , probably a fake .

silver will tarnish, you know.

 

[mrjosh]

Doesnt look like thier logo, but I.C. Railroad

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Doesnt look like thier logo, but I.C. Railroad

Yep. Its going to be hard to solve but keep trying. The I does kinda look like a rr track cross section..

 

[stefen]

Could be an acronym for various societies or businesses

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Acronym Definition
IOC International Olympic Committee
IoC Inversion of Control (OOP pattern)
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO)
IOC Initial Operational Capability
IOC Initial Operating Capability
IOC Immediate or Cancel (trade order)
IOC Indian Ocean Commission
IOC International Oceanographic Commission
IOC Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd
IOC Input/Output Controller
IOC International Oil Company
IOC Independent Operating Company
IOC Industrial Operations Command
IOC Images-On-Call (teleradiology system)
IOC Institute of Organic Chemistry (China)
IOC Inorganic Chemical
IOC International Ozone Commission
IOC Independent Operating Carrier
IOC In-Orbit Checkout
IOC Information Operations Center
IOC Integrated Optical Circuit
IOC Inter-Office Channel
IOC Initial Operational Clearance
IOC Intraoperative Cholangiogram
IOC Index of Cooperation (ITU-T)
IOC Instructor Orientation Course (SCUBA PADI course)
IOC Internet Operations Center (IETF)
IOC ISDN Ordering Code (Bellcore)
IOC Interoffice Channel
IOC Infantry Officers' Course (USMC)
IOC Institute of Carpenters
IOC Input/Output Cluster (Cray)
IOC Inter Office Communications
IOC Islamic Observation Centre
IOC Inorganic Compound
IOC Islam on Campus
IOC Instantaneous Overcurrent
IOC IOTA Occultation Camera (International Occultation Timing Association)
IOC Interfaith Open Communities
IOC Individual Oral Commentary
IOC Information Object Class
IOC Internet Operation Center
IOC Integrated Optical Component
IOC INTELSAT Operations Center
IOC Inter-Organizational Coordination
IOC Intercept Operations Center
IOC Innovation Ontario Corporation (Government of Ontario Corporation)
IOC Innocent Owner/Operator Certificate
IOC Impact Over Cost
IOC In-Orbit Construction (NASA)
IOC In-Organic Chemical
IOC Intrinsic Order Criterion
IOC Involuntary Outpatient Civil commitment
IOC Input Output Cabinet
IOC Intercell Ohmic Contact
IOC International Obesity Congress
IOC Internal Office Communication
IOC Internal Overload Control
IOC Internal Office Code
IOC Interactive Orbit Calculator
IOC Inter-Object Concurrency

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ic


IC or ic may stand for:

In computing and technology:

Integrated circuit
initial condition
Interactive C, a programming language for robotic controllers
International Coordinator, the top coordinator of the FidoNet
Interchangeable core or interchangeable core lock cylinder
Internal combustion engine
intercooler
Intrusion Countermeasures
Instrument cluster
In education:

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA
Imperial College London, UK
International College, Beirut, Lebanon
In entertainment:

WWE Intercontinental Championship
International Canoe
Infinite Challenge, the top-rating South Korean TV program
In Character, as opposed to OOC (Out of Character)
In finance:

Invested Capital
In humanities:

A Christogram
Irreducible complexity
Intellectual capital
In language:

-ic suffix
iċ, an old English pronoun
IC codes, police shorthand expressions for apparent ethnicity
In Casu, Latin for 'in this case'
Index of coincidence
Internet slang for "I See"
In medicine:

Intensive care medicine
Interstitial cystitis, a disease
Informed consent, in clinical trials the form that has to be signed by the patient (subject) before entering the study
In science and mathematics:

axiom assuming the existence of an inaccessible cardinal
rare short version of the Roman numeral XCIX (99)
Index Catalogue in astronomy
Ion Chromatography
Ionization chamber
Ic or I-c, a subtype of Type I supernova, see Type Ib and Ic supernovae
Organizations and companies:

IC Bus, a bus manufacturer
Industry Canada, division of the Canadian government
Intelligence Community, a federation of United States agencies and organizations which conduct intelligence activities
Intentional Community
InterContinental hotel chain, or its parent company InterContinental Hotels Group
Invisible Children Inc., a non-profit for kids in Africa, or Invisible Children, the movie behind the non-profit.
Places:

Canary Islands' ISO 3166-1 code[1]
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Ithaca College, USA
In transport:

Ice Crystals' METAR code
Illinois Central Railroad
Air India (flights formerly operated by Indian Airlines)' IATA airline designator
InterCity certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe
Other:

Identity card
Incident Commander
Military terminology for 'In Command' or 'In Charge', often preceded by an 'O' to indicate an Officer or 'NCO' for a Non-Commissioned Officer.
Indianapolis Colts, an NFL football team
Interstate commerce

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

What state did you find this in gemee?

 

[creskol]

I like the railroad connection idea. To me, it looks like the I is actually a cross section of a rail.

 

[traderoftreasures]

could it be a tractor?

 

[72cheyenne]

I like the railroad idea too, but its not from Illinois Central. http://www.icrrhistorical.org/logos.html

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Central Iowa Railroad? It could be C I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CI

CI may refer to:


[edit] Criminology and Military
Counter-intelligence
Criminal Informant
Confidential Information
Crazy Ivan: a U.S. Navy term for a Soviet submarine maneuver
Compliance Inspection (USAF)

[edit] Finance
The NYSE symbol for CIGNA Corporation

[edit] Locations and Continental Services
Central Islip, New York
Cayman Islands
Chile, FIPS country code and obsolete NATO country code digram
Cocos Island, off the Republic of Costa Rica
Coney Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an external territory of Australia
Christmas Island, an external territory of Australia
Kiritimati, another island by the name of "Christmas Island" in the Pacific Ocean
Côte d'Ivoire, ISO country code digram
The IATA airline designator for China Airlines (Taiwan ROC)
Cryonics Institute
Channel Islands
Qi, in Tongyong Pinyin

[edit] Medicine
Cardiac index
Ci protein, Cubitus interruptus -protein
Convergence insufficiency
Cumulative incidence, used as a measure of disease frequency in epidemiology
Cochlear implant
Chemical injury syndrome, an increased sensitivity to common chemicals also called multiple chemical sensitivity.

[edit] Philosophy
Categorical imperative

[edit] Politics
Certificate of identity
Conservation International
Civilian Internee, a special status of a prisoner during wartime
Companion of the Order of the Crown of India, postnominal

[edit] Science, Technology and Mathematics
CodeIgniter, a php-framework
Computational Intelligence
Common Interface for a Conditional Access Module.
CI+, Common Interface Plus
Continuous integration, a software engineering term.
Configuration interaction, a post-Hartree-Fock method used in computational chemistry.
Confidence interval, an interval estimate of a population parameter used in statistics.
Conservation International, an international environmental non-governmental organization.
Convective instability
Curie (Symbol: Ci). A measurement of radioactivity named after Marie Curie.
Cirrus cloud
Cosine integral (standard mathematical symbols "Ci" and "ci").
CI group, a type of meteorite.
Core Image
101 in Roman numerals.
Configuration item in Configuration Management.
Copenhagen Interpretation, an interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
Compound Interest (Mathematics)
cI protein, a repressor protein of Enterobacteria phage λ
cubic inch, a unit of volume used almost exclusively in the United States.

[edit] Television
Canadian Idol, the Canadian television series.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the television series.
Crime & Investigation Network (Australia), Australian cable and satellite network focusing on Crime.
Crime & Investigation Network (UK), United Kingdom cable and satellite network focusing on Crime

[edit] Other
Ci (poetry), a form of Chinese lyric poetry
Civilian Instructor, an adult volunteer in the British Air Cadet Organisation
Cycling Ireland
Competitive Intelligence
Collective intelligence, a subfield of Sociology
China Airlines
Corporate identity, a concept in marketing
CI Records, a record label
Comprehensible Input
Cambria and Indiana Railroad
Contact improvisation
Christian Identity

 

[INDIANMANIAC]

Judging be the notches around the diamond, The crudeness of the symbol, & the hammered dents, I would definitely confirm this relic to be handmade with some time taken to complete the piece. I further conclude that it is a very old piece, perhaps an uncompleted ring with someone's initials. What do you think of that assumption?

 

[traderoftreasures]

see'r of details i like it

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Judging be the notches around the diamond, The crudeness of the symbol, & the hammered dents, I would definitely confirm this relic to be handmade with some time taken to complete the piece. I further conclude that it is a very old piece, perhaps an uncompleted ring with someone's initials. What do you think of that assumption?

It may be handmade but it is stamped sterling and is not a ring because it has a clasp.

Yes it does look like a tie clasp or pin, but it is definitely a brooch or pin. Has the old C type clasp. No markings, but sterling. I wonder if this was a woman's brooch of some fraternal order?

There is always a chance that a pic of the back will help. Sometimes the sterling mark will give a clue as to the maker. Can you post a pic?