Join, or Die Pin

This pin is pewter and can be worn as a tie tack, hat pin, lapel pin, etc.  Show your patriotism by wearing this pin. The actual size is 1′ x 1/2″.  Made in USA. “Join, or Die” is a well known political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.  It shows a snake severed in eighths, one each segment labeled with the initials of a British American colony or region.  New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies it was at that time.  Delaware and Georgia were omitted.  Therefore it has 8 segments of a smake rather than the traditional 13 colonies.  The cartoon appeared along with Franklin’s editorial about the “disunited state” of the colonies and the importance of colonial unity.