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Knights Templar Badge for Joseph Warren Commandery
1898
Eugene H. Richards
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Metal
Overall: 2-1/2"h x 2-1/8"w
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.4256

Gold-tone Knights Templar badge with horizontal pin back. Front of pin is rectangular with a Christian cross inside a crown at top center. Text on the rectangle reads, "27th Triennial / Pittsburgh 1898." Suspended from the pin by two chains is a rectangular medal with gold-tone border around silver-tone centerpiece. The center shows a house and a tree with lettering, "Birthplace / of / Gen. Joseph Warren." At the sides of the border piece is a cross with a banner and crown. On left the banner reads, "No" and on right the banner reads "26." Border top reads, "Joseph Warren." Border bottom reads, "Commandery K.T. / Boston Mass." There is a maker's mark on the back of the pin.