Jewel and Medal Designs

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Title

Jewel and Medal Designs

Description

Jewelers who specialized in fraternal jewelry often keep photographs or images of the different jewels, badges and awards they manufactured as a catalogue of their offerings. When a lodge or organization requested a new design, the jeweler frequently drew or painted a sketch of the proposed design to facilitate discussion. The watercolors displayed here are badge and jewel designs from the Boston shop of jeweler Frederick Widmer and his successor, Kenneth Park.

For more on these objects please visit the online collection records here.

Identifier

Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts, GL2004.10961.1, .8, .9, .10<br /><br /><br />

Creator

Frederick Widmer (1877-1955) and Kenneth Robert Park (1908-2008), Boston, Massachusetts

Date

Late 1800s to mid-1900s

Citation

Frederick Widmer (1877-1955) and Kenneth Robert Park (1908-2008), Boston, Massachusetts, “Jewel and Medal Designs,” Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Online Exhibitions, accessed April 25, 2024, https://srmmlonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/575.