Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Masonic 50th Anniversary Northern Lodge Commemorative Plate
ca. 1903
Maker not marked
USA: New Jersey
Ceramic
overall: 1 x 9 7/8 in.; 2.54 x 25.0825 cm
Gift of Mrs. Robert B. Laird
78.15

50th Anniversary Northern Lodge Commemorative Plate; transfer printed design; Masonic symbols include All-seeing eye, three columns, sun, moon, square and compasses, sphinx; words on bottom of altar "AUGE VIDE TACE"; inscription on bottom of plate "1853 1903/ NORTHERN LODGE/ No XXV F. & A. M./ NEWARK N.J., USA"; leaf design on either side of plate; deeper blue band of jagged trim around edge; reverse is list of officers for 1903, reads "OFFICERS FOR 1903/ George W. Davis WM, Burnet F.McPeek SrW, William J. Brands JrW, Benjamin E. Chapin, Secy, William Al Baldwin Treas., Geor. R.K. Schermerhorn SrD, Jacob C. Reiss JrD, Geor. C. Heller SrMC, Chas Goldingay, JrMC, Thomas Goldingay, SrS, Edwin E. Dent JrS, Rev Edwin A. Hainer, Chaplin, Jacob H. vanNess, Chaplin, Thoms B. Hood, Organist, Israel L. Kinsey, PM Tyler, Ed. S. Fancher, Delineator, Louis H. Heiss, Delieator".