Odd Fellows - Past Chief Patriarch - 1930s

According to the IOOF website:  This jewel may be worn by a brother and patriarch who is a Past Grand and a Past Chief Patriarch, instead of the separate PG and PCP jewel.

 

The back is riveted on and is a thick material to be engraved.  Oddly this one is not engraved.

This one is interesting because it seems to have sat in one place in one position for a very long time.  See the oxidation on the above and below pictures.  Now, before you start emailing me to say that gold does not oxidize...  true.  But that is a property of the AU element.  Any alloy has a portion of the composition  made up of silver and copper.  The copper does.  A 18k ring which is worn will never really show any tarnish.  A 10k ring buried in the back yard will quickly show tarnish.   At any rate this one was twisted and stored in a way that caused the front of the medallion and the back of the pin bar to tarnish.

I plan to clean it, but I will need to do it gently.  The bar at the top is certainly gold washed sterling, and I have seen this same bar on other IOOF jewels.

This jewel is 2.75" by 1.5" and weighs 10 grams.  It is sterling and maybe 10k gold.

relative amount I paid for this - low

As of 2/9/14 the gold/silver scrap value works out to about $___?

However, none of these are for sale.