Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Checkerboard with Masonic Symbols
ca. 1890
Maker not marked
USA
Pine; paint
overall: 20 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 1 in.; 51.435 x 74.93 x 2.54 cm
Special Acquisitions Fund
91.033

Checkerboard with with Masonic symbols. Green painted board with breadboard ends decorated with Masonic symbols. At center is a blue and white checkerboard. To the left is a sun and then a blue column with white sphere on top. Below the column is a red 47th Problem of Euclid. To the right is a moon and then a blue column with white sphere on top. Below the column is a red and yellow five-pointed star. At top center is a red square and yellow compasses symbol with an all-seeing eye in the middle. Below the checkerboard is a red and yellow half-circle.