posted 10-08-2009 09:42 PM            

Here's a 7" fork in the La Rochelle pattern by International Sterling - nothing much unusual about that and when I first picked it up I didn't really make out what was applied to the top of the handle. My eyesight being what it is I got out my magnifying glass and was surprised to see a skull with KKK impressed in it sitting above a pair of crossed keys. I turned it over and engraved on the back was the inscription Alpha Theta.

I had never seen anything like this and the piece intrigued me so much that I decided that I had to have it.

So now that I have it the question is, what is it? Anybody know, have any ideas or just want to make up a story?

posted 10-08-2009 11:37 PM            

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Kappa Kappa Kappa

A local men's fraternity located at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
The fraternity founded in 1842 is the second-oldest fraternity at Dartmouth College and the second-oldest local fraternity in the nation.

It is a single school organization and is not a chapter of any national organization.
The organization has no affiliation with the later post American Civil War Ku Klux Klan, which first formed 24 years later, in 1866, and adopted Roman-alphabet initials, "KKK", similar to the Greek letters of Tri-Kap. According to legend, Kappa Kappa Kappa sued the Ku Klux Klan for defamation of name but lost because the judge ruled that the similarity in initials of the organizations was sheer coincidence.

Alum include various Senators, Representatives, an ambassador, Pulitzer Prize winner, actor and White House speech writers.

Kappa Kappa Kappa is in no way related to the Ku Klux Klan and is established in the North, rather then the South as another definition states.

Kappa Kappa Kappa is a men's fraternity.

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