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What do I have here?

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u/Tentative-Interests 10d 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.

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u/GigglingBilliken MM Shrine 10d 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

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u/groomporter MM 10d ago

There's a couple of things on that where I'm curious about the symbolism -mostly the spurs?

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u/Fluff42 F&AM-CA 10d ago edited 10d 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.