1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols crate with concentric rings of orange

with concentric rings of orange

The reverse shows that linen tape has been used to back a couple of small tears and along a couple of inches of fold line to stabilize--well done and not visible from the front

and features graphite

but I'm sure I have an old wooden box around to send them in

Wear to the paper on the handles and to the very top edge when closed (not visible when open) but no tearing to the fan itself and it still looks bright and crisp

1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols crate with concentric rings of orangeThis fabulous thing, hand etched with an jam packed array of Freemasonry symbols, would once have been part of the scabbard or sheath for a ceremonial sword, with the rings allowing it to be hung proudly on the wall in between ritual wieldings:) I don't have much of an interest in swords, but I am sure glad someone salvaged this piece, which now I'd hang from those two rings just as it is. The metal piece itself was produced by the Ames Manufacturing