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Design for Masonic Sungari Lodge Founder Jewel
1900-1950
Frederick T. Widmer (1877-1955); Kenneth Robert Park (1908-2008)
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Watercolor on card
Overall: 3 7/8"h x 3 7/8"w
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.10961.10

Design for Masonic Sungari Lodge Founder jewel. Gold-tone rectangular bar at top reads "Founder." Blue ribbon hangs from the top. Suspended from the ribbon is a round medal with a bridge and a ship in the center. Lettering above the bridge reads "Instituted / July 5, 1825." Lettering along the edge reads "Sungari Lodge A.F. & A.M. Harbin, China."


Jewelers who specialized in fraternal jewelry often keep photographs or images of the different jewels, badges and awards they manufactured as a catalogue of their offerings. When a lodge or organization requested a new design, the jeweler frequently drew or painted a sketch of the proposed design to facilitate discussion. The watercolors displayed here are badge and jewel designs from the Boston shop of jeweler Frederick Widmer and his successor, Kenneth Park. For further information, see Newell, Aimee, et.al., "Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection", 2013, p. 274-275.



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