ANA CONVENTION BADGES AND RIBBONS

 

The American Numismatic Association (ANA) has "Association" as part of the name. Any object produced for the ANA could be considered an "Association Item" and many people, including me, collect them. This is the second in a series of articles about association items that relate to American numismatists. The first image shows ribbons and convention badges for the American Numismatic Association that include the name of an ANA president. There have been articles in The Numismatist about convention badges, but I am not aware of articles about convention ribbons.

If I did not have these, I would not know that at one time the ANA had ribbons with an individual name printed on the ribbon. If I wanted to catalog these, I wouldn't know where to go to get the information.

Convention badges are not numismatic items. They are collected because of their association with the club. While I have a large collection of ANA material, the items that can be associated with an ANA president have a double value.

Loyd B. Gettys was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and worked in Omaha in the insurance industry. He served as ANA president during 1947-1949. One of these ribbons is older than I am.

George D. Hattie was an attorney, born in Detroit and lived in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He served as ANA President during 1979-1981. The badge is from 1961 when Dodson was president.

Oscar H. Dodson was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy. He served on the carrier Hornet in World War II and retired as Rear Admiral in 1957. He served as ANA President during 1957-1961. His badge is from 1980 when Hattie was president.

I have a couple of boxes of stuff accumulated from Central States Numismatic Society conventions that I attended. I have two framed Riker Cases with 36 badges including many conventions I did not attend. On two occasions, I was president of the host club.

Several of these badges cross over into the area of association items when the badges are named.

John Gabbaron was born in El Paso, Texas. He served as Sergeant-at-Arms for the ANA in 1969 to 1990. He received the ANA Farran Zerbe Memorial Award in 1979 and a Glenn Smedley Award in 1993. That sequence was unusual. The badge is from 1975.

Glenn Smedley was born in Illinois. He was First Vice President of the ANA in 1957-59 but did not serve as President. He received the ANA Farran Zerbe Memorial Award in 1960 and was inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame in 1982. The badge is from 1978.

George D. Hattie was president of the Central States Numismatic Society in 1970- 1972. The badge is from 1980. I have six other Hattie badges from 1981 to 1988. His ANA and CSNS badges came from two different sources.

Donald Young was born in Mercer, Colorado. He managed production of TAMS medals and may have had the largest collection of ANA Medals. He served on the Central States Board 2008 to 2014. The badge is from 1991.

I have another Smedley named badge from the 1961 CSNS Convention. This was hosted by my local club, the Northwest Coin Club. Thus, it is associated with my local club, with the CSNS and with Smedley as a numismatist. These are all areas I collect. I may have trouble finding things that could be in any of several boxes.

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