Very interesting find, Brucewood. From the information below, I believe your pin is from the time frame the coins on the site indicate. Thanks for posting!
from the link below:
>The Palmer Penmanship School awarded students with pins as they progressed through the different levels of their penmanship courses. Highly collectible and we just don't find as many of these as we once did....
... Lapel Pin, Palmer For Progress in Writing, brass pin with royal blue enamel finish, .75 inch diameter. Much higher quality than their other pins which were made of tin with laminated imprints.
Scroll down to Palmer Penmanship
http://www.pendemonium.com/paraphenalia.htm
Plus a link with background info:
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AN Palmer (1860-1927)
From the time of the adoption of the Palmer Method in New York City in 1905, the old Copy Book System which advocated whole-arm movement was doomed. A permanent office of the A. N. Palmer Company was opened in New York City that same year, and under the laws of his company's home state, Iowa, Mr. Palmer's business was formed as a corporation on February 25, 1905.
With increasing business interests throughout the years, A. N. Palmer remained essentially a teacher, never losing his touch with the classroom. He was an educator and publisher of uncommon energy. On November 16, 1927, just one month prior to his 67th birthday, he died after a brief illness. At the time of his death, over 25 million Americans had learned writing from the Palmer Method of Penmanship.<
http://www.zanerian.com/Palmer.html
