Scarce Hand-Engraved Silver Masonic "Senior Deacons" Folding Square and Compass Band Aid tin Weaving: 5 1/8" x 7"

Weaving: 5 1/8" x 7"

It was quite surprising at first to pick it up and find it quite light in weight

One more miniature folk art chair

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Scarce Hand-Engraved Silver Masonic "Senior Deacons" Folding Square and Compass Band Aid tin Weaving: 5 1/8" x 7"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