Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati, circa 1920

  • American
  • N. G. Wood & Sons, Boston

Gold or gilt and enamel with ribbon

  • Overall (including ribbon): 3 5/8 inches (9.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Lendall Pitts

59.105.A

Department

American Art before 1950

Inscribed, around circle: Omnia relinquit servare rempublicam [translated: He relinquished everything to serve the republic]

S. Lendall Pitts [1875-1938]

his wife, Elizabeth McCord Pitts [1880-1963]

1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Payne, Elizabeth. Portraits of Eight Generations of the Pitts Family: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Detroit, 1959, pp. 6, 49.

American; N. G. Wood & Sons, Boston (probably), Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati, circa 1920, gold or gilt and enamel with ribbon. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lendall Pitts, 59.105.A.