My Uncle’s friend passed away and left his stuff to him.
My Uncle gave this box to me. It has a half dollar Kennedy coin…a Seiko watch…and this gold Free Mason ring which I am now wearing.
It’s quite a sharp-looking ring!
It’s quite a sharp-looking ring!
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My daughter is hand modeling the ring for me.
I googled a bit about these rings. It might be worth a couple grand…but I won’t sell it. I like old stuff.
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I keep getting emails from a so-called grand lodge (of England?), asking for money lol. They always start the message with “Dear Brother”…
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I think that The Free Mason society was so secret back in the day, that even it’s own members didn’t know what they were all meeting about. lol!
But I like the fact that the ring symbolizes ‘charity’ and ‘integrity’ from what I googled.
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You have very pretty fingernails Patrick
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I used to rent a space on the main floor of a Masonic Lodge for my PC repair biz. Some evenings I would hear their meetings after hours while working late. Sounded like an elderly Presbyterian church worship. Boring, IOW.
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It was pretty big back in the day, my dad was a member but he got kicked out for questioning where certain money was allocated, sounds a bit silly,
My gran and Aunt were in the female equivalent, they had parties and everything in the hall and sold alcohol cheap, it closed down now, it has a severe lack of membership now.
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Asking questions is the best way to accidentally find the exit to any religion. Lollllll.
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it wasn’t really a religion as far as i am aware, more like a secret society of like minded people.
I don’t agree with you but it can sometimes happen, its more the answers that people don’t like mostly lol,
Questioning things is good as is keeping an open mind.
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It has a religious aspect.
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That’s a really cool ring, @Patrick .
I’ve had lots of family that were in Freemasonry and the Eastern Star.
I don’t think I’d ever join them but I like some of their ideas and what they stand for.
There’s also lots of Freemasons in the Air Force. A fellow airman who was a Freemason was once telling me a little bit about them in a class I took off base a long time ago.
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To be honest, I think it might just be an old school ring. The logo is off-center, and not quite a ‘G’ in the middle. Something tells me it probably is not a Mason ring.
But it is 14k gold, and I’ll continue to wear it. I won’t sell it.
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I’d like to see the watch. It could be something special. Maybe I could identify it for you.
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My dad was in the Air Force. Stationed in California. He was in during the Vietnam war. He was had something to do with communications. And it was top-secret. He never saw the battlefield. He just worked behind a desk.
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Why not have it appraised just to see if it is an authentic ring?
Oh that’s awesome. Thank him for his service for me, please.
Yeah I can’t remember where I heard this but I heard when a lot of people were drafted during the Vietnam War they would often try getting into the Air Force if they had good enough grades and/or were in college.
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My dad joined the Air Force to get her away from my mom’s parents. They live on the East Coast and my dad’s Air Force was stationed on the West Coast
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I valued the Seiko from the writing on the back face of the watch. It’s worth 50-200 bucks I think.
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