Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Order of Knights of Friendship Medal for Mark G. Kerr
1875
Maker not marked
USA: Pennsylvania
Silver, enamel
overall: 4-1/4"h x 2-3/4"w x 1/8"d
Museum Purchase
2013.012.1

Round silver Knights of Friendship medal with loop at top and gold tassled cord along the edge. One side shows a triangle in the center with three steps in the middle and a scale above. The background of the center is purple. The spaces outside the triangle are pink, red and blue and show various symbols (arm with arrow, urn, bow and arrows, ring, crossed swords, book). Along the edge of the medal are initials: EACGHTLAUTCK. Lettering along the sides of the triangle reads "M.G. Kerr M.D. / Founder / 1850 / KOF." The back is engraved "Presented to / Most Eminent Grand Sir KM / Mark G. Kerr, M.D. / by Resolution of the Most Eminent Chamber / OKF in appreciation of his Services as / Author and Founder of the Order of / Knights of Friendship. / Done at Reading, Pa., this 19th day of October / A.D. 1875."