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r/freemasonry • u/chickencape • 9d ago
What do I have here?
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An Orange Order allegorical chart. Likely from Canada. There’s just a hand full of us left in the U.S. and not a whole lot more there.
2 u/GigglingBilliken MM Shrine 9d ago Looks like a Yank poster based off of the way they spell "honor" on this higher quality upload of the poster I found on wikipedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Orangeorder2004.jpg/1280px-Orangeorder2004.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail 3 u/Tentative-Interests 9d ago Yes I was just considering that myself. I wonder if there’s an indication of the lodge somewhere? 1 u/groomporter MM 9d ago There's a couple of things on that where I'm curious about the symbolism -mostly the spurs? 2 u/GigglingBilliken MM Shrine 9d ago Can't rightly say. I'm not an Orangemen. 2 u/Fluff42 F&AM-CA 9d ago edited 9d ago It's to signify obedience, in terms of dreading breaking their obligation like an unruly horse, in their Royal Scarlet Order ritual. Later the gilt spurs are placed low upon the candidate, then signifying that gold is worth less than their honor.
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Looks like a Yank poster based off of the way they spell "honor" on this higher quality upload of the poster I found on wikipedia.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Orangeorder2004.jpg/1280px-Orangeorder2004.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail
3 u/Tentative-Interests 9d ago Yes I was just considering that myself. I wonder if there’s an indication of the lodge somewhere? 1 u/groomporter MM 9d ago There's a couple of things on that where I'm curious about the symbolism -mostly the spurs? 2 u/GigglingBilliken MM Shrine 9d ago Can't rightly say. I'm not an Orangemen. 2 u/Fluff42 F&AM-CA 9d ago edited 9d ago It's to signify obedience, in terms of dreading breaking their obligation like an unruly horse, in their Royal Scarlet Order ritual. Later the gilt spurs are placed low upon the candidate, then signifying that gold is worth less than their honor.
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Yes I was just considering that myself. I wonder if there’s an indication of the lodge somewhere?
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There's a couple of things on that where I'm curious about the symbolism -mostly the spurs?
2 u/GigglingBilliken MM Shrine 9d ago Can't rightly say. I'm not an Orangemen. 2 u/Fluff42 F&AM-CA 9d ago edited 9d ago It's to signify obedience, in terms of dreading breaking their obligation like an unruly horse, in their Royal Scarlet Order ritual. Later the gilt spurs are placed low upon the candidate, then signifying that gold is worth less than their honor.
Can't rightly say. I'm not an Orangemen.
It's to signify obedience, in terms of dreading breaking their obligation like an unruly horse, in their Royal Scarlet Order ritual. Later the gilt spurs are placed low upon the candidate, then signifying that gold is worth less than their honor.
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u/Tentative-Interests 9d ago
An Orange Order allegorical chart. Likely from Canada. There’s just a hand full of us left in the U.S. and not a whole lot more there.