Many thank everyone for your input re the badges. It is a very old photo and in bad condition I don't think it is the Scottish Women's Rural Institute badge as their is no indentation on the heart shape. The heart is actually solid. Possibly a variation or as Jim suggested a luckenbooth. I did Google it but once again none of then are solid. Definitely not the badge for the Order of the Eastern Star. Just seemed rather strange that the 3 of them had it. One of those mysteries Angela " >>> affiliated. Do you by any chance know if they had a badge shaped almost >> heart shaped but the top has a couple of indentations? It's just that I >> have >> a photo of my gt gt grandmother with her daughters and she and two of the >> daughters have the same badge Worn at the throat. >> >>> Angela, the equivalent to the Masons for women is the Order of the >>> Eastern >>> Star. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Just for fun, I googled heart shaped badges http://books.google.com/books?id=emQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410&dq=Scottish+heart+shaped+badge&source=bl&ots=rTCnCrnF3j&sig=GVSiS89bYg0IcWxrRNR6hMzbnQU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IAz1UvD5L_H22AXnyICADA&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Scottish%20heart%20shaped%20badge&f=false http://www.ebay.com/gds/History-of-the-Scottish-Luckenbooth-/10000000002967154/g.html Also check Jacobite Luckenbooth.   http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-002-193-C http://books.google.com/books?id=RboxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA341&lpg=PA341&dq=Scottish+heart+shaped+badge&source=bl&ots=m_Ja0TjZKl&sig=9X8HThnYboBRiS2ZSBG7oDCwQT0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NA71UtXCIuSMyQHXnoF4&ved=0CIABEOgBMAg4FA#v=onepage&q=Scottish%20heart%20shaped%20badge&f=false >________________________________ > From: Angela <angkelly@aapt.net.au> >To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com >Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:44 PM >Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Aberdeen Trawlers > > >Many thank everyone for your input re the badges. It is a very old photo and >in bad condition I don't think it is the Scottish Women's Rural Institute >badge as their is no indentation on the heart shape. The heart is actually >solid. Possibly a variation or as Jim suggested a luckenbooth. I did Google >it but once again none of then are solid. Definitely not the badge for the >Order of the Eastern Star. Just seemed rather strange that the 3 of them had >it. >One of those mysteries >Angela >" >>>> affiliated. Do you by any chance know if they had a badge shaped almost >>> heart shaped but the top has a couple of indentations? It's just that I >>> have >>> a photo of my gt gt grandmother with her daughters and she and two of the >>> daughters have the same badge Worn at the throat. >>> >>>> Angela, the equivalent to the Masons for women is the Order of the >>>> Eastern >>>> Star. > > >--- >This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. >http://www.avast.com > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >