Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Masonic York Rite Royal Arch Mark Medal
ca. 1804
Maker not marked
USA: New York
Silver
overall: 2-3/4"h x 1-15/16"w x .023"d; overall: 7 x 4.9 cm; weight: 14.1 g
Special Acquisitions Fund
88.40

Masonic Mark Medal; obverse: engraved plate, cherub face above circular band inscribed "Samual Babcock Mr. MK, MN; central design of a hand holding Masonic working tools suspended in equal balance; a three-lobed drop-finial engraved with the "Pentalpha."; reverse: crest engraved with symbols of all-seeing eye, sun and moon, marking gauge and trumpet of judgment day; the acronym HTWSSTKS and central work design of a pitcher with initial "O" (oil); the drop finial dated 5804.