Society and Color Guard Insignia, with Society Rosette The Society shall have an insignia, which shall be a badge suspended from a ribbon by a ring of gold, the badge to be elliptical in form, with escalloped edges, one and one-quarter inches in length, and one and one-eighth inches in width; the whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings displayed, inverted; on the obverse side a medallion of gold in the center elliptical in form, bearing on its face the figure of a soldier in Continental uniform, with musket slung; beneath the figures 1775; the medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five points each upon a border of dark blue enamel;Éthe ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered, edged with buff, one and one-quarter inches wide and one and one-half inches in displayed length. The insignia of the Pennsylvania Society was one of the first considerations of the Founders. A Committee consisting of Oliver Christian Bosbyshell, John Woolf Jordan and Herman Burgin was appointed in October 1888 to secure designs, with instructions to consider those submitted by Major L'Enfant to the Society of the Cincinnati in 1783. On 14 January 1889 the present design was submitted to and accepted by the Board of Managers. The Pennsylvania Society design was subsequently adopted by the New York Society and the General Society. The rosette of the Society also dates to 1889. In that year a Committee was appointed to consider designs. The Committee reported in favor of adopting the rosette of the New York Society and on 11 November 1889 this recommendation was accepted by the Board of Managers. The New York Society rosette was subsequently adopted by the General Society as the standard for all State Societies. The insignia of the Color Guard of the Pennsylvania Society was chosen in 1909 by a Committee consisting of Norris Stanley Barratt, Francis von Albade Cabeen and Josiah Granville Leach. The Committee selected the design of Color Guard member Clarence Payne Franklin and on 11 May 1909 reported to the Board of Managers that J.E. Caldwell & Co. was the low bidder, "proposing to make the badge for $9.75 each." (italics added) The Color Guard insignia was first worn by members of the Guard on 19 June 1909, at that year's celebration of Evacuation Day at Fort Washington.