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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Masonic Apron
Object Number
1919-21-0
Description
Masonic apron made from cream colored silk with plain linen ties. Flap at top decorated with a hand painted all seeing eye. Front of apron painted with various masonic symbols with green rolling hills below. "Hail Heaven'y Virtue! Thine's a Sacred Flame!!" across middle.
Provenance
This masonic apron was likely home made. Copied from an engraving. The donor's husband was a member of St. Paul's Masonic Lodge in Litchfield, CT.
Comment
St. Paul's Lodge received its Charter in 1781 from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and, therefore, traces its ancestry to Scotland. The first man initiated and raised to the degree of a Master Mason was Julius Deming in 1781. St. Paul's Lodge has met in many locations during its history, and was largely nomadic for the first one hundred years of its existence. In 1885 the Lodge purchased the former Methodist Church on Meadow Street. St. Paul's Masonic Lodge is still active to this day, and has remained in their home on Meadow Street since its purchase in the late nineteenth century.
Category
Date Made
ca. 1800
Dimensions
Height 15"; Width 15"
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