Scarce Hand-Engraved Silver Masonic "Senior Deacons" Folding Square and Compass Band Aid tin 20 7/8" x 15 1/4"

20 7/8" x 15 1/4"

and I can't resist snatching them up when I find them

Weaving: 5 1/8" x 7"

I'd probably hang just as in this from pins in the corners

It will stand up on its own

Scarce Hand-Engraved Silver Masonic "Senior Deacons" Folding Square and Compass Band Aid tin 20 7/8" x 15 1/4"Quite a lovely and smart looking thing, this hand engraved silver square and compass tool would have been made for a Masonic "Senior Deacon." Through a little research I've learned it would have been carried by the Senior Deacon when guiding candidates through the rituals associated with attaining their masonic degrees. (Specifically, I've read, the compass would symbolically I presume! be used to "pierce their naked left breast," or the square