Masonic apron

masonic apron

Masonic apron: white leather trimmed with red silk; secured around wearer by string; painted triangle on flap in brown, black and gold paint: trowel within triangle [trowel is symbolic tool which 'cements' Masons in brotherly love, triangle symbolizes the deity]; below flap, in brown, black, and gold paint "HOLINESS TO G THE LORD" ["G" denotes 'The Great Architect of the Universe]; below is trowel within triangle, five-pointed star [symbolizing the five points of fellowship], inverted triangle, altar, and ark [possibly to indicate wearer is a Royal Arch Mason]; gold symbols painted beneath flap: see notes in file; apron owned by Andrew T. Judson [1784-1853], of Canterbury CT, who presided over 1839-1840 trial of AMISTAD captives; see Beha, Ernest "A Comprehensive Dictionary of Freemasonry" Citadel Press, 1963, and Museum of Our National Heritage, "Masonic Symbols in American Decorative Arts" 1976.