MA 007. Blue Lodge certificates

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Kirby traveling from Tokyo Lodge, No. 125. Tokyo was originally under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut before applying for dispensation under the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands.

Scope and Contents A clandestine Mark Master Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's case is fully detailed in...

Scope and Contents A clandestine Master Mason certificate issued by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), to John Kulczycki and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's International Masonic Federation also used the...

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Master Mason certificate issued by Columbia Lodge, No. 91 (Philadelphia, Pa.) to John Stevens, dated May 27, 1816.

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A Master Mason certificate issued by Morton Lodge, No. 63 (Hempstead, N.Y.) to Silvanus Smith. Dated December 27, 1802. Imprint at bottom of certificate reads, "Bror. Rollinson Sculpt."

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Master Mason certificate issued by Mariner Lodge, No. 385, (New York, N.Y.) to William Hyler and dated November 11, 1825. Imprint at bottom of certificate provides the names of the artist (John Reubens Smith), the engraver (Peter Maverick), and the publisher (Samuel Maverick).

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The Masonic register and emblematic history of Master Mason Maurice F. Sheldon of Hartland Lodge, No. 218 (Johnson's Creek, N.Y.). Dated October 17, 1874.