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Senior
Girl
Scout
Mariner
Pins
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| Smooth Wheel version of Mariner Pin |
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| Image donated by Angie Olds |
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| Midshipmite Pin attached to Mariner Pin |
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| donated image |
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| Mariner Pin |
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| variation |
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| 8 spokes, large trefoil variation |
Scroll down to read
Cal Holden's
detailed
information on
Mariner Pins.
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| WW II metal shortage Rayon Mariner Pin |
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| b & w image from catalog |
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Mariner Girl Scout Pin
1938-1980
In the 1945 catalog the Mariner pin is listed as sterling silver for 90 cents, the 1949 catalog lists only a silver plated
pin for 35 cents and the 1958 drops it down to a nickel silver for 35 cents, stating that it can be worn on the Senior or
Mariner uniform (on the neckerchief knot). An undated catalog from the 1963 era lists the price as 75 cents. By 1978 the pin
is no longer official wear on the uniform and cost $1.20.
This pin is now being officially reproduced for wear on adult uniforms.
Cal Holden submitted the following detailed information on the Mariner Pins
There
are at least 5 or 6 varieties of Mariner pins that were made as they
changed suppliers and contended with wartime metal
shortages.
These are all different and official: Remember they were all sterling, at
first.
With dimples
all around:
A. Marked sterling with hallmark R for Robbins Co. N. Attleboro MA
Trefoil 11.0 mm tall
with shield approx. level with the rest of the
trefoil surface. Horizontal rotary clasp.
B. Not sterling but, well made. No hallmark. Trefoil 11.0 mm tall with
shield
level with the rest.
Horizontal safety pin clasp.
C. Pot metal with Lyon Brothers hallmark, cheaply made. Trefoil 11.4 mm
tall
with shield raised above the rest of the surface. Horizontal
safety pin clasp
With just one dimple:
D. Marked sterling with R hallmark. Trefoil 11.0 mm tall with shield
level
with the rest. Rotary clasp.
Smooth surface .
E. Punched out of sheet metal but may be sterling. this is a wartime
variety.
Trefoil is 12.2 mm tall and shield is raised. Rotary clasp.
Note from Cal Holden: In the wartime catalogs of 1944,1945, and 1946 they show two mariner
pins.
One is the flat one with no dimples or surface texture in sterling at $0.90
plus 20% excise tax. The other
is one offered only during the war made with
a rayon design on a shield-shaped pin. It is only $0.30.
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