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What Symbol is this?
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Brother_Steve
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another take on it...
edit: may not be for public view.
edit: may not be for public view.
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It is what it says it is. Masonic emblems. A tracing board, if you will. Possibly used in the lectures. I can't read the inscription but from the emblems shown it is not U.S. in origin.
Why would it not be for public view?? The emblems are not secret, only some of their explanations.
Why would it not be for public view?? The emblems are not secret, only some of their explanations.
Don't know for sure, but I believe that is "the trestle-board."
Brother_Steve
Premium Member
Where did lodges meet before meeting in buildings?
The symbol depicted to me looks like a cut away of a land mass that has certain features.
I would agree with Zack, it appears to be a Trestleboard, where the Master would lay out the work for the day. I'd also second the notion that the image isn't of American origin... there's a skirret in the upper right.
Brother_Steve
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"Respectively Dedicated by permission to F. Whyter Melville Esquire of Bennochy, The Most Worshipfil Grand Master Mason of Scotland By His Humble Servant William Garoy."
edit: best I could get with the names.
edit: best I could get with the names.
It could represent the highest of hills and lowest of valleys.
I don't get that impression. It appears to be a clay tablet with a stylus. Hard to tell on a phone, though.
dfreybur
Premium Member
Using Firefox I don't see the image or attachment.
I think he deleted the second image.
dfreybur
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There were more than one images? I went back and checked threads that have embedded pictures and video. I see them fine. I went back and checked threads that have attached files. I see them fine also. What i see in this thread is exclusively text yet clearly others see not just one image but more than one. Confusing.
Brother_Steve
Premium Member
I did not have an image in my reply. I felt what I posted was too much for non masons to see so I edited myself.
I too see it as a highest of hills and lowest of valleys.
I too see it as a highest of hills and lowest of valleys.
Brother_Steve
Premium Member
The color one looks like a clouded canopy.Hey Guys,
I found another drawing of this symbol from way back Germany.
Any new ideas?
I'm still of the mind that the black and white one could be highest of hills or lowest of valleys. I tried TinEye on the color image to see if I could find a site that had definitions to go along with the numbers on the colored tracing board but had no luck.
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dfreybur
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The colored one appears to refer to events that take place at the altar just after the obligations and just before the secret part. Given the form of the cable tow I think it's about a first degree. It also includes references to the first degree lectures I know plus a couple of tools I don't recognize and a third degree tool. Notice that the squares do not represent the Pythagorean Theorem so rather they seem to be about the form of a lodge. Probably these items are included in the first degree in some jurisdiction I am not conversant with.
The black and white one seems to be a very brief summary of a pair of objects introduced in the second degree. Not as they appear in every lodge room I've been to rather as they are explained in part of a lecture.
As expected neither mention any secret. They do serve as pictorial reminders of what order to discuss which topic. They are "A valuable aid to the memory" in a different format than books issued by GL.