Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Officers' Jewels and Original Sales Receipt, with Display Case and Key within Leather Case
1796-ca. 1820
Paul Revere, Jr. (1735-1818)
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
a-l: silver; m: mahogany, leather, paper, ink
suitcase (flat): 4-3/8"h x 25"w x 15-3/4"d (box) or 17"d (including handle); case open: 16"h x 24"w x 17"d; case (flat): 3-5/8"h x 24"w x 14"d (box) or 14-3/4"d (including handle)
Extended loan from Washington Lodge, A.F. & A.M., Lexington, Massachusetts
EL76.004a-m

Set of 12 Officer's Jewels (a-l) with mahogany display case and silver key, within leather suitcase (m). The leather suitcase has the original paper receipt mounted in it, which is signed by Paul Revere. There is also a Key (see image) and a 3" x 1/2" leather strap broken off from snap on suitcase. These live in baggie with suitcase.

In 1796, the newly chartered Washington Lodge of Roxbury, Massachusetts, ordered “one Sett of Silver Masons Jewels” from silversmith and fellow Freemason, Paul Revere. Although this group of twelve jewels has been preserved together by Washington Lodge for generations, the original group of jewels likely numbered nine or ten. When the lodge commissioned this set of jewels, it had only nine officers. The offices of Tyler, Marshall, and Chaplain were added after 1796. For further information, see Hamilton, John D., "Material Culture of the American Freemasons," 1994, p. 120,134.