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The Cambridge Masonic Temple in Cambridge Massachusetts is a active Masonic Building, with five Blue Lodges, a Lodge of Instruction, and a Royal Arch Chapter. Built in 1910, it was once home to 14 different Masonic bodies. In 1987, after searching the Temple, we discovered hundreds of...

We have a collection of 20,000 items here at Cambridge, MA., items can be found at estate auctions, shops, flea markets, ebay, live auctioneers.com and zip auction as well as the Arts and Antiques Weekly out of CT. Most of our items today come from ebay.

It is said when items like this leaves a certain Masonic body or Masonic buiding. At least one good thing is that the items are being saved in one way and will go to someone who will appreciate them. I have heard of too many horror stories where buildings and bodies clean house and throw away...

Would be very interested in having a copy of your talk for our collections here at Cambridge. A number of years ago we had donated a mint copy of a 1896 flyer sent out by the Memphis Rite to some Masonic Lodges. Not much is known about them, and even though they are not Masonic, it would be a...

Five of the Lodges here in Cambridge have facebook accounts, though a few lay dorminant. My Royal Arch Chapter has one, Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter as well as the Cambridge Masonic Temple has a facebook account. We are currently working on a web site for the Cambridge Masonic Temple that will...

There are two types of Past Master degrees, one which is mentioned above which is conferred in the Royal Arch Chapter. Now this is done in the Chapter because at one time, only a Past or Presiding Master could receive the degree of Royal Arch and go on furthur to be knighted as a Templar. This...

Here in Massachusetts we call it a Lodge of Qualification. The Master elects of every Lodge must attend this Lodge before he is installed. A tradition kept for over 250 years. Only a new Master attends this Lodge, it is very similar to the Past Masters degree, as a matter of fact it is from...

You may want to go through them before trashing old ones that no longer need to be kept. I do not know what Texas Grand Lodge recommends, but you may want to keep a few for history records. Such as events, purchase of jewels, regalia, etc.

I believe that the Grand Lodge of Pennsy. has a good size collection of Dudley Masonic pieces. Some were recently donated by Julius Clark, I believe that is how you spell his name. Brother Clark is the one if memory serves me, wrote a number of books on Masonic Collectables. One being that of...

Almost twenty years ago, I wrote a article for my state magazine called the Trowel, on a topic of Masonic jewels. Our Buildings, Temples, Apartments, Halls, and why they were indeed one of the jewels in Freemasonry. Twenty years have past, and still many of our jewels are being lost, some...

Dudley was famous for his watches. There is a paperback book out on Masonic Timepieces by (forget the brothers name) it goes into some detail on Dudleys. Even a none working Dudley today will bring in over a thousand dollars.

even though I am in Massachusetts, what size are the columns? hate to see this stuff thrown away, can it at least be sent to a local auctioneer to be auctioned off?

I have seen others, as well as holding two labels that M.W. Paul made for a Lodge here in Massachusetts.

Before you start throwing things away, check first to see what it is. Here in Massachusetts, we have over the years had many a Lodge merger, and building clean out. Some items we throw away, purely by accident. Of course some items such as broken fans, vaccums, computers can be removed, but...

The top photograph is somewhat, what Knight Templar in Europe wears, the White Mantle, which here in the US we do not wear. Some commanderies here in the US, are having their candidates wear the White Mantles during the orders. The top photo seems to be maybe a group of Knights Malta, the...

If you are talking about the RAC banners, we do here in Massachusetts. They are used for the RAC degree for each of the four veils. Ours are about 100+ years old, handpainted on Silk.

We had a few years ago four Past Masters in the company. We only have six employees, very small. One of the partners died a few years ago, but the new partner just became a MM and the three of us did the gates for him on his raising, we are back to four out of six, and ritual sometimes flows in...

We still have a few here in New England, that they meet b4, on or just after a full moon.

Depends on the constitution of each jurisdiction when it comes to this topic. If a Charter is pulled, in some cases the Lodge is merged with another Lodge. In other cases, it leaves the members able to search out another Lodge and become a member of that Lodge. It leaves the members open on the...

In any jurisdiction unless it is stated in the by-laws as such, the Grand Master has the power to revoke the Charter of any Lodge that is a regular lodge under that Grand Lodges jurisdiction. In some cases he will send the DDGM to arrest the Charter and bring it back to the GL, which should...