Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 12945125, member: 5833&quot;]Welcome, angellionel.&nbsp; What an intriguing find.&nbsp; Just curious: how deep was the water you had to retrieve it from?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe you could give us links to any Internet sources you consulted so that we don&#039;t have to do the work all over again.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;the word &quot;Hope,&quot; I&#039;m leaning more toward the Hope Temple of Honor chapter.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this is it exactly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This may be correct, but I do not think it is entirely apparent.&nbsp; It is not clear to me that 12 - 78 is a date.&nbsp; Such organizations would come up with pseudo-mystical creeds &amp; rituals.&nbsp; If I were back in algebra class, I would read that as 7 equals (12 minus 78) over HDP.&nbsp; Could indicate when WPE was inducted into membership; could represent some &quot;mystical&quot; formula of their own devising.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/ring18k00-jpg.557319/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The triangle with what could be an eye at the center is of course very Masonic, the Trinity and the all-seeing eye of God.&nbsp; I do not know what the L &amp; P at the foot of the 2 middle columns would stand for.&nbsp; Loyalty?&nbsp; Patriotism?&nbsp; Foundational values/beliefs.&nbsp; And are there additional letters either side that have become effaced?&nbsp; I see both 6-pointed stars &amp; a 5-pointed one.&nbsp; Again, no idea what this meant to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In reference to the Sons of Temperance, AI coughed up this:&nbsp; Specific <b>rituals and degrees</b> (Love, Purity, Fidelity).&nbsp; If this group followed the S of T in this, the symbol of the clasped hands, the ancient <i>fede</i>, may indicate that the owner had attained the degree of Fidelity, although also suggestive of a secret brotherhood handshake.&nbsp; Since the Temple of Honor started as sort of a super-degree, the latter may be all there is to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in