The cup sits on a flared base is decorated further with gilt-drawn designs surrounding a majestic Bald Eagle with wings outspread. Above the eagle is drawn "F.O.E." for the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Below the eagle, the owner's name is scripted in gold but is unreadable due to wear of the gilt.

On February 6, 1898, the Fraternal Order of Eagles was founded by six theater owners sitting on a pile of lumber in Moran's shipyard in Seattle Washington. Competitors in the theater industry, they met to discuss a musicians strike. After deciding what to do on that issue, they decided to "bury the hatchet" and and formed an organization dubbed the "Seattle Order of Good Things".

The constitution passed a month later renamed the group "The Fraternal Order of Eagles" and asked its members to "make human life more desirable by lessening its ills and promoting peace, prosperity, gladness, and hope." Within ten years, the Eagles had 1,800 lodges scattered throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, boasting a membership roll that exceeded 350,000. Members received free medical attention (as did the individual's family), weekly payments in case of sickness, and a funeral benefit--all valuable services before the widespread availability of medical, disability, and life insurance.