Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Masonic York Rite Knights Templar Lapel Pin
1910-30
Maker not marked
Place made not marked
Gold, metal, enamel
1-1/8"h 7/8"w x 3/16"d
Gift of Beth Jacobsen
2020.022.14

Masonic York Rite Knights Templar Lapel Pin. Lapel pin of gold-colored metal (likely another metal that is filled with gold) has pin bar at top shaped like a ribbon or open scroll with decorative outcroppings at top center and corners. Suspended from this via two o-rings is a metal eight-point star with white enamel infill; there is a circular section at its center with "IN HOC SIGNO VINCES" in black enamel around a red central passion cross with 16 white stars and several green leaves surrounding. On reverse, under hinged pin bar, the raised initials "R.G."; on badge, stamped "M.P.B. / P. [illeg.]".