United States. An Order Societies Miniature Pair And Patch

Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States (MOFW) Miniature Pair (one with a three-piece construction, in silvered bronze with red and blue enamels, measuring 14.8 mm (w) x 18.5 mm (h); the other designed with a three-piece construction, in bronze gilt with red and blue enamels, measuring 15 mm (w) x 18.8 mm (h), missing its obverse centrepiece, both with original ribbons, mounted together, dual push pin attachments); and Order of the Founders and Patriots of America Patch (in red, yellow and black embroidery, black threading giving to the starburst, wreath and figure heads, black felt backer with triple push pins, measuring 88 mm in diameter). Ranging from very fine to extremely fine.

Footnote: The Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States (MOFW) is one of the oldest veterans' and hereditary associations in the nation with a membership that includes officers and their hereditary descendants from all of the Armed Services. Membership is composed of active duty, reserve and retired officers of the United States Armed Services, including the Coast Guard, National Guard, and allied officers, and their descendants, who have served during one of the wars in which the United States has or is engaged with a foreign power. The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (OFPA) is a highly restrictive, United States-based, hereditary fraternal organization whose self-declared purpose is to collect and preserve records related to the original American colonists and their descendants, and to promote camaraderie among descendants of original colonists. Its strict bloodline mandates and small size (currently slightly more than 1,000 members), has earned it a reputation as the most exclusive lineage society in the United States. However, unlike the Society of the Cincinnati, membership eligibility does not descend through family lines by order of agnatic primogeniture, meaning more than one member of the same family can simultaneously hold membership. The OFPA was founded in 1896. At that time, there were several hereditary organizations for descendants of Patriots of the American Revolution, as well as for descendants of early American colonists (i.e. Founders). The OFPA is the only organization to require descent from both a Founder and a Patriot. Its first annual meeting was held in the Governor's Room at New York City Hall. Membership is limited to male U.S. citizens of "good moral character" who are directly descended in the paternal line from a person who settled, prior to 1657, in the territory that would become the thirteen colonies and whose family later helped achieve, through military service, United States independence. The OFPA is organized into twenty-eight regional chapters, known as societies. These, together, form the general society, which is headed by a governor-general. The society is headquartered in Ohio. Individual members are referred to as "associates."