Trading Pins Database
The purpose of this site is to provide and get factual information about Jaycee trading pins.
We are not trying to provide information about every Jaycee pin that has ever been made. We have limited ourselves to Jaycee pins that were intended to be traded at the annual meetings; i.e., conventions, board meetings and special meetings of the US Jaycees and Jayceettes and US JCI Senate.
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That is hard enough in and of itself, much less trying to keep track of local, regional, district, area, program, personal, publicity pins and any other type of pins that were not made by a state Jaycee organization or Onto committees for any purposes other than the fun of trading with other Jaycees at annual meeting or conventions of the US Jaycees.
After all that’s what these little pieces of metal with different colors of paint on them were made for in the first place - to help break the ice between folks who have not yet made friends with each other and believed they did not yet have anything in common with each other. However, if you have a trading pin from your state and I have a trading pin from my state, then we do have something in common and we are not strangers anymore. Soon, we are on the way to becoming friends.
During the course of making a trade of our respective pins we talk to each other and we find out a little bit about each other and we find out that we have a lot of other things in common and we become friends. So the little pieces of painted metal have worked their magic and soon it is time to move on to make a new friend from another new state.
It is possible that you may have a Jaycee pin that is not on this database. That does not mean it is not an important pin. If you have it, it must be important to you. It only means that some specific pins are outside the purview of this database. There maybe a database elsewhere that has information on your pin.
Or, maybe your pin is a new find and you should contact us with the information about your pin. We will research it and tell you as much about as we are able to find out about your pin. Sometimes that is a lot, sometimes that is not very much, but we will try. If your pin is the kind of pin that fits the over all requirements of this database we will gladly add it into this database. We would like to put a scan of it into the database also. That way folks can see the pin as well as read about it.
This database is not perfect. We have made and will make mistakes in this database. We continually review it and try to update it and correct it. So if you see anything that you believe needs clarification or correcting, please let us know and we will review it and act accordingly.
Now that you understand a little better what this web site and the database contained herein is all about, have fun with it. Use the information that is here for more fun and better enjoyment of a hobby shared by many Jaycees and JCI Senators, young and old, from many countries around the world, Trading and Collecting Jaycee Trading Pins.