1938/92
Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Royal York Lodge of Perseverance, No. 7, London.; Centenary Jewel
Classification:- Centenary; Lodge/Chapter Etc.
Country of Origin:- England - Province/Region/District:- London
Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)
Description
OBVERSE: Within a circular border, a matronly figure, representing Charity, seated, full-face, a child in her lap and two at her sides; between two columns adorned with globes. Below is a squared pavement, and above, an All-seeing Eye set with a brilliant. Around the circle, in gold lettering on alternately dark and light blue, ROYAL YORK LODGE 1751 OF PERSEVERANCE/CENTENARY The whole is surmounted by a ducal coronet and enclosed within a chaplet formed of an ear of corn and a sprig of oak, with an oval medallion bearing the number 7 at the base.
REVERSE: Plain.
An Athol Lodge, dating from 1769, which has inadvertently obtained the foundation date, 1751, of an earlier Lodge which had the same number.
Properties
48 X 60 mm. Silver gilt and enamel.
