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Brent B
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 Posted: Sun 12 Mar, 2017 7:12 pm Post subject: Can anyone provide any info on these swords? |
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My family came across these 2 swords many years ago and they have been sitting in our garage since then.
Does anyone know anything about them? How old they might be? Type of swords? Any other info? They appear to be medieval swords.
If there are any other pictures that would be helpful, please let me know. I just took a couple for now.
https://ibb.co/gJNd3v
https://ibb.co/dE1SwF
https://ibb.co/e6ZEbF
Sorry couldn't get images to embed. But links work.
Any info anyone can provide is greatly appreciated!
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Glen A Cleeton
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| Posted: Sun 12 Mar, 2017 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Brent
These are Scottish Rite Blue Lodge freemasons swords. Are there any retailer's names on the base of the blades?
Cheers
GC
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Lin Robinson
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| Posted: Mon 13 Mar, 2017 5:25 am Post subject: Re: Can anyone provide any info on these swords? |
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| Brent B wrote: | My family came across these 2 swords many years ago and they have been sitting in our garage since then.
Does anyone know anything about them? How old they might be? Type of swords? Any other info? They appear to be medieval swords.
If there are any other pictures that would be helpful, please let me know. I just took a couple for now.
https://ibb.co/gJNd3v
https://ibb.co/dE1SwF
https://ibb.co/e6ZEbF
Sorry couldn't get images to embed. But links work.
Any info anyone can provide is greatly appreciated! |
Masonic swords and very common. Swords like these have been made for years and are probably still being manufactured. They have limited value since they are so common.
Lin Robinson
"The best thing in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women." Conan the Barbarian, 1982
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Brent B
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| Posted: Mon 13 Mar, 2017 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Glen A Cleeton wrote: | Hi Brent
These are Scottish Rite Blue Lodge freemasons swords. Are there any retailer's names on the base of the blades?
Cheers
GC |
Thank you. One says “The Henderson Ames Co Kalamazoo Mich.” The other says “James Luker New York”
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Glen A Cleeton
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| Posted: Mon 13 Mar, 2017 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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I would have to look in the book for Lurker but the Henderson Ames sword would likely have been early 20th century, no later than 1933 but possibly as early as the 1890s. If the swords are more or less identical, that the Lurker was probably sourced from Henderson/Ames.
If there are individual's names etched on the blades, it can be as easy as a little family research, or general searches for the individual. These are not masonic Sir Kight Templer swords buy likely rather of lesser degrees or association. KT swords will usually have a cross in a crown iconography. The skull&bones common to Master Mason swords. It would not be unusual for an individual to have aquired more than one sword as they progress and not unusual at all for someone to belong to more than one fraternal organixation.
Cheers
GC
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Brent B
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| Posted: Mon 13 Mar, 2017 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Glen A Cleeton wrote: | I would have to look in the book for Lurker but the Henderson Ames sword would likely have been early 20th century, no later than 1933 but possibly as early as the 1890s. If the swords are more or less identical, that the Lurker was probably sourced from Henderson/Ames.
If there are individual's names etched on the blades, it can be as easy as a little family research, or general searches for the individual. These are not masonic Sir Kight Templer swords buy likely rather of lesser degrees or association. KT swords will usually have a cross in a crown iconography. The skull&bones common to Master Mason swords. It would not be unusual for an individual to have aquired more than one sword as they progress and not unusual at all for someone to belong to more than one fraternal organixation.
Cheers
GC |
Awesome. Thanks for the info!
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