Recently Acquired Masonic Order of Knights Templar gear...

[msfroiland]

The entirety of the stuff I got the other day belonged to a former commander in the knights templar. Here is the Chapeau, sword belt and double breasted coat. I haven't seen a KT coat with the layout of buttons. I love that there are 3 separated sets of 3 buttons. The collar is made of velvet as well as the cuffs. This jacket has been custom tailored, of course, as well as the custom made pants(picture to come)

[msfroiland]

Here we have 8 original postcards, unstamped and unmarked. They are all from the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave which was held in Minneapolis, Min, June 20-27, 1931 and State of Cali GC of KT Roster. The roster is the most recent item I have for now.

[msfroiland]

Here is a picture of the medals, ribbons and patches. The oldest one I here is the bronze medal, it is an official souvenir badge 1899, Detroit, S.G.L I.O.O.F. and the Malta is gorgeous, its got the standard eagle holding olive branch and arrows with a colored shield, red white and blue with 10 gold stars. That one is stamped by the Henderson Ames co kalamazoo.

[msfroiland]

Here are the pants, I had to shrink the picture to upload it but you should be able to see the tailors markings on the inside.

[msfroiland]

heres the backside of the malta

[msfroiland]

and the front side. Has anyone heard anything about AMORC? Along with this templar gear I found a nearly complete set of first edition Master Monograms going from the first Neophyte Degree to the 12th Temple degree. I am not sure what they would be worth to a collector but I have dated them between 1924(the year they began publishing the monograms for home study) and 1926(the earliest date I have found stamped on the correspondence between the member and order hierarchy. If anyone has any idea what something like that would be worth I would be most grateful. Thanks guys, I hope you enjoy the pics.

[ladybird]

KT in the USA bears no resemblance to the order this side of the pond

AMORC....try this for information...http://www.amorc.org/wwdirectory/index.html