Aust. Historical Medals

Lot 817    Session 3 (2.30pm Tuesday 24th March)    Aust. Historical Medals

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $70

MASONIC JEWELS, Australia, Queensland Widows', Orphans' & Aged Masons Institution jewel, reverse inscribed, 'Life/Governor/C.S.Decker/Presented by/Dalrymple Lodge/No.30. 1920'; Great Britain, East Lancashire Masonic Benevolent Institution Steward's jewel; Masonic Benevolent Society jewel, makers mark for T.T.Jones, Sydney, reverse inscribed, 'Robert By Allen/Doric Chapter/No.933/London. 1873'; New Zealand, Ngatiawa Lodge 345, Founder, 1949 jewel; USA, Saint Paul Osman Temple, The Centre of North America, Imperial Council badge. Display mounted on board, good very fine - extremely fine. (5)

'T.T. Jones and Son, Goldsmiths and Watchmakers, have an extensive establishment in George Street. The business is an offshoot of the old firm of T. Jones, of Ludgate Hill, London, and was started in 1853 by the present senior partner, Mr. T. T. Jones. A leading feature of the firm is the manufacture of Masonic jewels and regalia, which are turned out on the premises equal in excellence to anything to be obtained in London; in fact, it is not uncommon for the firm to receive orders from the great metropolis of the world. Some exceedingly fine silver plate is manufactured, besides which all the work of a gold and silversmith, watchmaker, and manufacturing jeweller is carried out by twenty-five or thirty hands - in strange contrast with the time when the business occupied the attention of but one. Mr. G. T. Jones, who has lived in Sydney from the age of two years, was educated at the Grammar School, and now conducts the business.' Source: The Aldine Centennial History of New South Wales - W. Frederic Morrison - 1888.