Royal and Select Masters (Masonic order)

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Regalia catalog produced by Ihling Bros. Everard Co. that specializes in Royal and Select Masters Council robes, costumes, equipment, and supplies. Images are in black and white except for a color photo of the Ihling Bros. Everard Co. headquarters.

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Reunion and inspection program of the Cincinnati Council No. 1 on May 22, 1925.

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Manuscript Ritual for York Rite degrees includes hand watercolored plates and pen and ink drawings throughout. It also includes ritual for all York Rite degrees (starts with Master Mark Mason), e.g. Select Master, Most Excellent Master, Knights Templar, Knights of Malta, etc.

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A Royal and Select Master certificate issued by Melrose Council (Melrose, Massachusetts) to Stanley Maxwell and dated May 15, 1957. Imprint at bottom of certificate reads, "D.T. Kendrick, Del. & Sc. Copyright 1875 by the Grand Council of Mass."

Scope and Contents Document entitled "Royal and Select Master" opens with the question: "We have been asked several times, what kind of degrees are the above mentioned and where did they come from?" It uses information from the Circular of the Supreme Grand Council of Sov. Gr. Insp. Gen. of 33° to address these questions. This document ascertains that the degrees of Royal and Select Master cannot be separated from the series of degrees conferred from the Lodges of Perfection and therefore, a Counsil [sic] of R...