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MASONIC BOOKPLATES
By
WINWARD PRESCOTT
BOSTON
Seas Company
The Four
1918
TABLE OF PLATES
PAGE
August Glahn.
By
J.
K. Gratz
Supreme Council 33 By W. P.
Thomas Kite. By I. H. W. ( ?)
.
J.
A. Adamira.
By
Frontispiece
Barrett.
Josef Vachal
Opp. page 9
10
12
Ketchum
14
16
18
Silas
Opp. page 19
20
W. Chapman
22
Bowley.
By owner
24
A. M. Buitamus
26
W. H. Rylands. By owner?
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Masonic Book-Plates are of course primarily interesting to members of the Craft who can understand the
various signs and symbols appearing upon them. Yet
these plates are interesting to Book-Plate collectors in
being among the rarest of Ex Libris specialties. Two
collectors have written on the subject Robert Day in
his "Masonic Book-Plates", (London, 1904), and A. W.
sonic Book-Plates
initiate rises
ures are used, for instance the triangle, the circle, the
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cube or perfect ashlar, the five-pointed star or pentalpha,
(See P-I, plate of L. M. Taylor) and the six pointed star
formed of two triangles as in the Ruddiman plate. At
times a plate will have some of the architectural marks
of a lodge room, such as the altar or the two columns with
their spheres one for the earth and the other for the
heavens.
very interesting example of an altar with the
beam of light falling on it from above is seen in the old
plate of W. Chapman.
plates will be
That of
W. H.
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collector to interesting facts in regard to their owners.
history of the Iowa Masonic Library is really that
of Mr. T. S. Parvin its librarian and benefactor. The
The
is
most
century.
"5 October, Wednesday (1768) After Dinner a Committee from the Grand Lodge, Bro. Richard Gridley, Bro.
Jenkins and Bro. John Cutler they Presented Mee the
Commission from the Duke of Beaufort appointing Mee
Brethren present.
I
&
Wee
fully
in
Craft.
This and other data used here are taken from notes made on the
margin of the mounts of these Book-Plates in my collecton. This
material may already be printed. But not being certain of thte,
I cannot make the proper acknowledgements to any publication.
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He was initiated
and held various
offices. "When the schism in St. Andrews arose, and the
Lodge was nearly equally divided on the question whether
it should renounce its allegiance to the Grand Lodge of
Scotland, and hold under the Massachusetts Grand
Paul Revere was an earnest Mason.
in the
Lodge of
St.
Andrew
in 1760,
societies,
among them
Society, the
New
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start
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No.
ttrirat
of
(California
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Canadian.
Ccirca.
Chip. Chippendale.
Cr.
Comp. compasses.
crest.
Cent.century.
(i.
I,
1908.
I,
A PARTIAL
may
e.
II,
1911.
II,
(Anon.) T. I. W.? Jac. Arm. with squ. & comp. as Cr. 1893. Eng?
(Anon.) N? Lod. mark in key stone. A Book- Plate?
(Anon.) Elaborately and entirely Mas. Attrib. to Richard Brunton.
See A. C. Bates, "An Early Connecticut Engraver and His
(Anon.)
(Anon.)
(Anon.)
Pict.
sine Uteris
(Anon.) Arm. (In oval, sea, island, two ships, sun in splendour.)
Motto, "Je sens de guide" and fleur-de-lys above. Below on base
squ. & comp. Fr. 18 Cent.
Above Is another and smaller
(Anon.) Arm. (Clasped hands.)
cartouche within which an oval containing scales and sword.
squ. & comp. at sides. Fr. 18 Cent.
Adamlra, J. A. Pict. By Josef Vachal of Prague. Boh.
Dec. Swed. Mas?
Alftren, Tonnes.
Ashman, Alfred A. Dec. By Mrs. Ashman. Am. PII.
Augstein, O. Dec. By Paul Voigt, 1897. Ger. Mas?
Bachert, A. E. Port. Pict. Arm. By owner. Am. P II.
Bain, George Washington. Pict. By (John Vinycomb) "Marcus
Ward & Co." 1897. Eng. D.
BeJoarek, Bvermod V. L. Dec. By Josef Vachal of Prague. Boh.
Barratt, Norris Stanley. Pict. Am. Judge of Philadelphia, 82d.
P n.
Barroll, William, Chester-Town. 1795. Dec. Am. Allen No. 59.
Pn.
Berthold, Rabbtoer, Dr., Oppenheim. Pict. Ger.
Bingham, Chas. D. Pict. By C. V. Kirby, 1909. Am. Of Watertown, N. Y. 33d. Pn.
Bond, Alderman, 1846. Pict. George Bond of St. John, N. B..
Can. D. PII.
Tlninio, Fr: Joannes, I. N. M. A. U. Dec. Egyptian
columns, Mas. marks, etc. Mod?
Breneman, B. Frank. Pict. By D. McN. Stauffer. Am. Born 1887,
died 1862.
Boynychych De
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died 1906.
R. E. Gr.
Commander
1882.
BrevilMer, Bibtiotheque de M.
sups, shield with altar, etc.
of Penn. Gr.
21
Commandery
in
Berlin.
Mas?
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23
Swing,
1910.
Ger.
Mas?
Hosmer, Timothy.
Arm?
By Thomas
McN.
Morlng.
Stauffer, 1896.
Pn.
Vice
Eng.
Am.
By
Pict.
Middletown, 17401820.
No. 4. pg. 15.
Arm. Eng. D.
No. 181.
Iowa Grand Lodge. Instituted Jan.
Hun
Pict. Am.
8, 1844.
Also
I.
see Parvin.
Johnson, Gen. W., Vlncennes. Dec. French motto. Am. Died
There' are said to be three varieties of this plate.
1833.
Pict.
By "D. C." Eog? Mod. D.
K., H.
Ketchum, Silas, Hopkinton, N. H., Cond. 1855. Arm. form. Am.
I.
Born 1835. died 1880.
Kingston, Charles H. 33d. jewel.
H.
Klnsale Masonic Lodge No. CCXXXIV. Seal. Eng. D.
Kite, Thomas. Arm. Pict. By "I. H. W/ Am. Of Cincinnati, O.
H.
33d.
Knight, Samuel, Achitect. Cr. By Thomas Morlng. Eng. D. Mas?
Kupplemayr, Ferd. Pict? Ger. D. Mas?
Lion, Louis. Pict. By Margot Lyon, 1907. Ger.
Los Angeles, Masonic Library. Pict. Am. P H.
Los Angeles Consistory No. 3, Scottish Rite Library. Presented by
II.
John H. Train 32d, 1908. Arm. Lab. Am.
Los Angeles, Valley of. Orient of California, Scottish Rite Library.
Arm. Lab. Am. P II.
Donated by
<MarKham?)
Arms
of
1779.
D.
I.
S.
M.
Markham
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Marquis, Frank H.
(Entirely Mas.)
Plct.
25
Am.
P
PII.
Textile School.
Olney, Louis Atwell.
last,
Omaha Masonic
Two
II.
sizes. Am.
Arm. By
Perkins, E. Otis.
R. Corlett.
Am.
PII.
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Ruddiman, Bibliothecarius Thb., A. M.
Arm. form. Eng. D.
Rupp, Geo. P. Plct. Am. Librarian
Fac. Jurid.
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Edinb.
Chip.
delphia.
Rylands, W.
Eng. D.
Santa Johanis Ev angel istae Sigilum Oollegi Latomorum. Kingston.
Canada, 1794. Sea]. P I, II.
St. Mungo Pieceptory of Kndghte Templar. Arm. Seal form. Eng. D.
Lab.
Am. See
St. Paul's Masonic Lodge of Litchfield, Conn.
Jamef Terrv. H:v Lii-iiH I. aflet" No. 4, page 15.
San Francisco, Masonic Library Association. Dec. Lab. Am. P I.
(Entirely
Scotland. Metropolis of, Col edge Heredon VII D. Pict.
Mas.) Motto, 'TMeu Le Veut. Lodge of Perfection. Will of
God". Eng. 18 cent.
Sener, S. M. Pict. Arm. form. Am. Pn.
Seth, E. collect. Librarla Joannes, Physiol ord. Cottns. Comaron.
Hung. 18 cent
Pict.
PII.
Supreme Council,
Supreme Council
83d., S. J.,
U.
S.
A.
Lab.
Am.
PI.
J., U. S. A.
The Pike Library of the.
Additions by the Sup. Council, May 14, 1881. (Another variety
with "Antiquities purchased May 14, 1881.) Arm. Lab. Am.
The gift of Albert Pike, born in Boston. 1809, practised law in
Little Rock, Ark., died 1891. He was a lawyer, soldier, author,
D. P I.
editor, poet and a noted Mason.
Supreme Council 33d. Pict. The most elaborate and impressive of
Mas. Ex. Libris. By W. P. Barrett, 1900. Am. D.
Supreme Council 33d., Washington, D. C. The Collins Collection.
Donated by Martin Collins. 33d., St. Louis, Mo. Port. Am. P I.
Supreme Council 33d., Washington, D. C. The Busby Collection.
Donated by Wm. F. Busby, 33d., South McAlester, I. T. Port.
Am.
PI.
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