Badge (Girl Guides)
Description
A small brown fabric badge featuring a yellow embroidered hand with the palm facing forward and two fingers extended. " GIRL GUIDES " is embroidered in yellow beneath the hand.
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Subject person
Classification
Credit line
This
badge
belonged
to
Judy
Jones
(nee
Donnelly)
who
attended
Girl
Guides
in
New
Plymouth
in
the
early
1960s.
This
badge
is
a
Golden
Hand
badge,
the
highest
progression
badge
that
could
be
attained
by
a
Brownie.
In
the
early
1960s,
a
Brownie
needed
to
earn
this
badge
before
she
could
proceed
to
Girl
Guides,
when
she
would
then
wear
Brownie
wings
on
her
Girl
Guides
uniform.
Accession number
PA2005.230
Collection type
Material
Public comments
Girl Guide Association badge used for Brownies - 'Golden Hand'. Highest progression badge attained in the Brownie section. In the early 1960s a Brownie needed to earn this badge before she could 'fly up' to Girl Guides and then wear 'Brownie Wings' on her GG uniform.
- posted 10 years ago.