Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Masonic Apron
1814-1822
Oliver Tarbell Eddy (1799-1868), engraver; Lewis Roberson, publisher
USA: Vermont, Wethersfield
Ink; cotton; silk
body: 16-3/4"h x 16-3/4"w; overall with ties: 20"h x 21"w
Gift of Paul D. Fisher
83.46.1

Masonic apron has all-seeing eye on flap (flap appears to be upside down); square body and square flap; at center "Published by Lewis Roberson, Weathersfield, Vermont" with columns and globes, sun, moon, stars, hands, beehive, ark, ladder, square and compasses, flooring, anchor, coffin, hourglass and other Masonic symbols; marked on bottom "O Eddy, sc"; with blue pleated silk ribbon trim.

For further information, see blog post, December 16, 2010 http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2010/12/new-to-the-collection-an-apron-with-a-story.html and blog post, November 8, 2011 AND http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2011/11/a-new-connection-between-masonic-aprons.html