- Title:
- Tracing boards (3) for Lodge of Charity, No. 4431.
- Object name(s):
- Other; Tracing board
- Brief description:
- First degree board: Rectangular coloured printed card with first degree tracing board symbolism within a black wooden frame. Second degree board: Rectangular coloured printed card with second degree tracing board symbolism within a black wooden frame. Third degree board: Rectangular coloured printed card with third degree tracing board symbolism within a black wooden frame.
- Collection:
- Museum of Freemasonry
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Associated concept:
- Tracing boards Freemasonry England Symbolism
- Associated concept:
- Symbolism Freemasonry Tracing boards
- Associated person:
- C. Weeden and Sons, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
- Comments:
- The principles of freemasonry are communicated by the use of symbols during the ceremonies and by illustrated lectures following the ceremonies themselves. Early lodges would draw these symbols on the floor of the lodge room and wash them off after the meeting. By the late 1700s other methods were being used including floor cloths and symbolic tablets for placing on the master’s pedestal. From the early 1800s the standard form was a set of three tracing boards each illustrating one of the three ceremonies. These could be of any size and material.
- Content - description:
- Compass points, Ionic column, Doric column, Corinthian column, Plinth, Volume of Sacred Law, Set square and compass, Ashlar with a lewis, Chequered pavement, Sun, Moon, Plumb rule, Level, Set square, Cherubim, Maul, Rule, Ladder, Stairs, Faith, Hope, Charity, Seven pointed star, Three Kings, Temples, Arch, Celestial globe, Terrestrial globe, Candlesticks, River, Mountains, Centurian soldier, Foliage, Gavel, Coffin, Hebrew, Scroll, Skull and crossed bones, Skirret, Compasses, Pencil, Acacia, Curtains
- Dimension:
- (First degree board) H: 262 W: 60 D: 13 Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Dimension:
- (Second degree board) H: 260 W: 60 D: 13 Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Dimension:
- (Third degree board) H: 261 W: 62 D: 13 Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Entry date:
- 19/11/2010
- Inscription content:
- 'C. WEEDEN & SONS LONDON E.C.1'
- Object name:
- Other; Tracing board
- Object number:
- M2010/1751/1-/3
- Object production date:
- n/k
- Object production place:
- England
- Reproduction format:
- Digital image
- Technique:
- Varnished
- Technique:
- Painted
- Technique:
- Woodwork
- Technique:
- Printed
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/df50cd72-fecd-3fd9-891d-9992b2457eae
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/df50cd72-fecd-3fd9-891d-9992b2457eae, Museum of Freemasonry, CC BY
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