SOLD Antique Carved Marble Masonic Keystone with Hand Held Scale iron cutout bird A rare and special feeling

A rare and special feeling thing

There's an old wire at the top for hanging

This I think is an especially beautiful one

I believe it was made as a cigar box

With a little research I learned that these origami parasols were once a common craft among Japanese American women

SOLD Antique Carved Marble Masonic Keystone with Hand Held Scale iron cutout bird A rare and special feelingI didn't know much of anything about this when I purchased it; I just really fell in love with that carved hand gripping balanced scale, which speaks of justice fairly delivered to me! Certainly it appeared to me to be Masonic, and with a bit research I've learned that it is a keystone indicative of the Royal Arch Masonry (also known as "Capitular Masonry") the first part of the American York Rite system of Masonic degrees and said by many to be "the