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Masonic Shrine Belt Buckle
1979-2000
Award Design Medals, Inc.
USA: Oklahoma, Norman
Brass
overall: 2-13/16"h x 3-3/4"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Brent Crozier
2017.052.4

Masonic Shrine Belt Buckle. OBVERSE: Oval-shaped buckle made of cast brass has convex curvature to face. Central design of Shrine emblem (scimitar, sphinx head, double tiger claws, and star) is within a circular border which has a stripe-textured background and a flat, smooth semicircular section at top and bottom. Sword tips extend over border of this central circular section into larger oval shape of buckle, the outer ends of which are decorated with raised design in scrolling, floral-like motif. Flat, narrow border around edge. At center bottom, below star, is the raised manufacturer logo, "ADM©". REVERSE: Concave curvature to surface with rough, irregular stippled texture. At PL end, a 3/8" cylindrical bar extends from face, tilted inward at an angle, to hook into holes on belt. At PR end, a metal bar with rounded corners, shaped like a rectangle missing one long side, is held in place by a pair of short, rounded tabs soldered to surface at either end so that bar for holding belt can rotate freely. Oriented perpendicularly between these two features is the raised text, "[manufacturer logo of a tree-like shape] / ADM [stylized, connected letters] / © / AWARD DESIGN MEDALS, INC. / P.O. BOX 1058 / NORMAN, OKLA. 73070 / [on a rectangular raised panel] SOLID BRASS".



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