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Provincial Chapter Breast JewelSmall and Large options available Holy Royal Arch Chapter Masonic Regalia of the highest quality HRAOrder with confidence for all orders in Freemasonry
ROYAL ARCH JEWELS
MASONIC jewels are more accurately medals, badges of distinction and honour, although many of the early examples were pieces of real jewellery, a few of them, indeed, being elaborate articles of virtu, heavily set with brilliants and other stones. Many of the early Royal Arch jewels are beautiful in their simplicity, especially those formed by fret‑cutting, piercing, and engraving, and jewels of this kind were made by famous silversmiths, notable among them being the Thomas Harper family of Fleet Street, London, many of whose jewels, now rare and valuable, are distinguished by the letters ‘TH,' not to be confused with the wellknown T‑over‑H device that ultimately became the triple tau.
The Masonic practice of displaying medals or ‘jewels' probably owes something to a sixteenth‑century Church custom of wearing medals, each bearing a religious emblem, or picture, incidentally a custom encouraged by various Popes during the nineteenth century. Craft jewels were known as far back as 1727, when Masters and Wardens of private lodges were ordered by Grand Lodge to wear "the jewels of Masonry hanging to a white ribbon." The approved Royal Arch jewel, the badge of the Order, incorporates the interlaced triangles and triple tau, and its early form is illustrated in the margin of the Charter of Compact, 1766. |
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