Pendant, what does it represent?

[Monty]

Found this pendant a few days ago at a house teardown site. Any ideas as to what organization it represents? If it is indeed from 1907, it is in pristine condition and still has the pin on the back. The inscription on the front says Kansas City May 22-3. Monty

 

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[jopher]

Montgomery Burns and Associates ??...LOL
Very cool find Monty..............Joe

 

[Monty]

Excellent! Monty

 

[Monty]

The more I check into it the less I think it reads MBA. I found a couple of MBA pins on ebay from about this same era and they aren't remotely similar to this one. The nine stars probably represent something, but what? Monty

 

[hollowpointred]

great find monty! you hunt a lot of house teardowns dont you?

 

[Monty]

Yes I hunt a lot of teardowns but just because of the opportunity now existing. They tore out about 40 buildings in an urban renewal project about a 10 minute drive from my house. Monty

 

[laralucine]

There is a receipt for the jewelry maker, Mermod Jaccard King, in the personal papers of this guy associated w/ U Missouri, St Louis in 1907 (link below). I think it is not "MBA", but M (Missouri), BA (Bachelor of Arts). Really nice find!


http://www.umsl.edu/~whmc/guides/whm0181.htm

 

[Monty]

lauralucine, I scanned all that material briefly and found he was married in 1907 and he first mentions "Light Battery A", later described as "Light Battery All" in his file folders. There's a lot of reference to his military record so perhaps BA was Battery A, a military term? Puzzling, and oh yes, thanks for the help. Monty

 

[PBK]

The more I check into it the less I think it reads MBA. I found a couple of MBA pins on ebay from about this same era and they aren't remotely similar to this one. The nine stars probably represent something, but what? Monty

You're right! Since posting, I've had a chance to go through numerous references on fraternal emblems and memorabilia, and your pin resembles none of the MBA examples. So, I've deleted my info about that organization. No sense cluttering up the thread with dead ends.

 

[Monty]

PBK, you're a great source of information and a good detective to boot. Sounds like you are archiving your research material. A good Idea, wish I had thought of it when I first started posting. For some reason I don't have much luck getting things identified. Maybe the items I find are just too bizzare? I'll bet this is some obscure fraternal organization founded in 1907. It's just in too good a shape to be that old. Looks like it was lost just yesterday. Anyway I'm not giving up yet. Monty

 

[stoney56]

How about the Missouri Bar Association.

 

[PBK]

Sounds like you are archiving your research material. A good Idea, wish I had thought of it when I first started posting. For some reason I don't have much luck getting things identified. Maybe the items I find are just too bizzare? I'll bet this is some obscure fraternal organization founded in 1907. It's just in too good a shape to be that old. Looks like it was lost just yesterday. Anyway I'm not giving up yet. Monty

Archives? Well, Arkie-ives maybe... more like some loony uncle's attic!

BTW, as long as we're just throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks, here's a really wacky one for you. Suppose that the letters are MBA, and that the circle enclosing them is actually an O. There was a fraternal insurance organization known as the Occidental Mutual Benefit Association, founded in 1896 and based in Salina, Kansas. It disbanded in 1922.

No, I don't think so, either... but somehow I just couldn't help myself.

(Stoney's probably right. Another brass acorn!)

 

[stoney56]

But PBK, I can't get more than this out of the Kansas City Public Library.

http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=209913

 

[Monty]

i think I will see if I can drop a line to the KC Histerical Society and see if they have a clue. Monty

 

[PBK]

But PBK, I can't get more than this out of the Kansas City Public Library.

http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=209913

What's really weird is that your source cites a 60th annual meeting of the Missouri Bar Association in 1940,
yet their own website states, "The Missouri Bar was created in 1944 by order of the Supreme Court of Missouri."

http://www.mobar.org/

 

[stoney56]

Maybe they were all disbarred after a wild convention and the Missouri Supreme Court reinstated them. Like the old saying, perjury is perjury only if ya get caught. LOL

 

[warsawdaddy]

Missouri Benevolent Assoc.??

 

[DCMatt]

How about a commemorative pin from the Missouri Bankers' Association convention in Kansas City in May of 1907?

I found one brief reference (using Google) for a keynote speaker to the Association on May 23, 1907. Also, other indications that the MBA has (or had) conferences in K.C.

DCMatt

 

[PBK]

Hey, Matt... sounds like you may have nailed this one! That's the best fit to the facts so far.

 

[stoney56]

8). thank goodness for sticky walls. LOL