United States. The Holland Dames Of The New Netherlands Society Badge For Caroline Lush Funkhouser In Gold

In gold, a badge with purple and black enamels bearing the society insignia on the obverse, affixed with old rose cut diamonds, reverse engraved with “Caroline Lush Funkhouser No. 2”, horizontal pinback suspension engraved with “Capt Volckert Douw, 1631”, measuring at 35.0 mm (w- from widest point on suspension) x 42.07mm (h- to top of suspension) and weighing at 10.3 grams.

Footnote: The Holland Dames of the New Netherlands is a lineage society which perpetuates the legacy of Dutch Settlers in the United States. Caroline Lush Funkhouser is the great granddaughter of Richard Lush, one of the first settlers of Albany, USA. Richard Lush’s children were all baptized in the Dutch Church in Albany. Volkert Douw is an ancestral relative of Annetje Loockerman who was known as the “Flemish Mother of America”. He was elected to the New York Senate, and in 1761 was Mayor of Albany, USA. He died in 1801.