>From: Aidan Turner-bishop <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Alcohol and Drugs History Society <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: "Temperance badge" identification >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:58:02 +0100 > >I've been asked to identify a "temperance badge" design which is unknown >to me; I wonder if anyone has come across this design please? > >The lapel badge - possibly dating from the late C19 or early C20 - is >in brass and it shows a green five-pointed leaf, possibly an ivy or >maple leaf. At the centre of the leaf is a circle which shows two, >grasped, sleeved white hands. The handshake is aligned SW-NE. The badge >was manufactured by Thomas Fattorini of Birmingham, England. The present >Fattorini company doesn't recognise the design in the company's >archives. > >I've not come across the ivy/maple leaf symbol in the temperance >movement iconography which is why I ask for any ideas please. Thanks. > >Aidan Turner- Bishop >Livesy Collection Librarian >University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England.