Unknown castle tower and crescent patch ID: K of C Order of Alhambra

[Siamundo]

Several years ago, before great resources like this militaria forum, I had one of these and sold it/got rid of it as I had about decided it was a fraternal or masonic type patch of some type. Over the course of the last several months I have now acquired two more of these that were in mixed patch lots. Before I decide what to do with these can anyone verify what these are?

[Johnny Signor]

Possibly British .....

[gwb123]

Could be French as well, although they normally do not make patches this way.

 

For their colonial troops, the crescent was often made part of the design.

[ocsfollowme]

I spent 25 minutes and came up emtpy. Uploaded both of these photos with cleaned up backgrounds for further image searches in google but I came up empty. Very well could be foreign.

 

[ocsfollowme]

[irish]

I am getting a Spanish Morroco feel. The crescent was also used by French Algerian units.

[vzemke]

I've had these on a few occasions as well, I've always assumed they were for some fraternal organization. Not all that uncommon and appear to be US made (atleast the ones I've had seemed to be).

[Siamundo]

Thank you everyone for your input. I tend to agree with vzemke in that they strike me as being US made-at least the ones I have seen. The smaller one with the black detail was the first of this particular variation I run across. It's interesting that gwb123 and irish both mention French as a possibility. Periodically I see one re-listed and pop up on ebay every few months where the seller claims it is a US Civil War patch as worn by French Zouave troops but being machine made fully embroidered I doubt that is true.

[BILL THE PATCH]

Could it be Turkish?, They fought with us in Korea. I know they used the crescent also.

 

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[kchickenlord]

Beyond this post, has anyone any more information on these. I have one identical to ocsfollowme. Measures W3"xH4".

[j. t. thompson]

On 5/1/2017 at 10:49 AM, QED4 said:

It is the Knights of Columbus, Order of Alhambra logo if you check fezmuseum.com you will see it.

 

[j. t. thompson]

On 5/1/2017 at 11:28 AM, Teamski said:

 

 

You are and identification sniper for sure! Here is an image from the site......

 

-Ski

 

[kchickenlord]

Nice one, that was annoying me. I don't like anything going unidentified, even when I know it doesn't belong with my collection!