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Where did you get your 1st MM RIng?

FlBrother324

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A Family member, Br. Mason, Friend, or did you buy it?

My 1st was a gift from my Mentor, it was passed to him by a Brother when he was raised, who received it from a senior Brother in his Lodge when he was raised. I am the 4th owner: 4 generations of Master Masons that I' m aware of . It is quite an honor to wear such a personal piece of Masonic history. I have several others, but that is the most sentimental one for me.
What say you?




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crono782

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Sadly mine doesn't have a good story behind it. I bought mine on amazon. Hopefully I'll have a customs one made some day an GAOTU willing I'll give it to my son or other close person one day. Hah


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j_gimpy

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Yeah I just bought mine from Gordon's Masonic Rings.



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Phoenix Lodge #154
Sumner, Washington
 

Brother JC

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I made my first one from maple, and used a woodburner to put my name and the date I was Raised on it.
 

Benjamin Baxter

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My uncle gave me mine. It had a small diamond in it and he did not wear it to the auto parts store where he worked. He was worried he would mess it up there, and gave it to me when I was raised.
 

Brother_Steve

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Bought a tungsten ring for 10 dollars. The working tools are barely visible which is nice to wear at work. No one can really see it but I can look at it to remind myself to be strong for my family when work has me wanting to get up and walk away.
 

dfreybur

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I got my first MM ring at a pawn shop. I liked bringing it back into the family. I got my SR ring on eBay. I liked bringing it back into the family.

My two PM rings with the two slightly different PM symbols I got new. Since I got the tungsten one I've worn it every day to the exclusion of my other rings. The engineer in me thinks it's very cool and itches to replace it with a titanium one ...
 

KyPastMaster

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Wife purchased mine from a jewelry store . SR ring was included in our petition/degree fees and I have no idea where it is or what happened to it .

As I never had nor will have any children I gave my wife instructions to give my Craft Lodge ring to my second lodge to give to a new MM upon his raising that is deserving .
 

Brother JC

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I enjoy hearing tales of rings returning to the Craft. The one I wear now belonged to a Mason I never knew (though I tracked down his Lodge), and was collecting dust when I acquired it.
 
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Michaelstedman81

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I love how I got mine, but I think that it is a typical story. I used to see my father dress up for work and where his ring, which wasn't anything too fancy at all. I was initiated in the lodge in my home town, and I got my FC and was raised in a lodge in Copperas Cove while I was stationed at Fort Hood. My father came to watch me get raised (which I was EXTREMELY surprised when I found out he actually helped raise me). Anyway, as we were walking back out to his truck to leave, he had his ring in his shirt pocket and pulled itout and gave it to me. It was a total surprise and meant the world adding to the surprise of my raising.

The next day, I got it resized to fit me, and within weeks I was on a plane to Iraq proudly wearing it. I still wear it, though I'm pretty careful on where it goes now so that I don't somehow lose it. With everything going on with his health now, it would kill me to lose it.
 

ThanatosTA

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One of my best friends bought mine for me from EBay (She calls herself my older sister). She got it because it was only $16 and suprised me with it a week before I was raised. Then she told me she knew I would get one that is prettier after a while. Then she told me that I would never forget her "because I will always be your first." :)
 
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