The frontispiece of a 200-year-old Masonic monitor, written by a New York City Brother, includes several symbols that elude me. Please use the comments section below if you have any ideas of the following:
- The crossed quills are standard, but what of those three crowns? The three GMs? But why with the quills?
- The item below the quills?
- I have no idea what that is to the right of the moon.
- The chalice? Is that from a ritual beyond the three Craft degrees, or something still in use by English lodges?
The image quality is the best I can manage.
A few low-confidence guesses: The three crowns interpretation as the GMs seems plausible. The chalice might be a stab at a pot of incense, or a miss at interpretation of a pot of incense from another chart. The paperweight like blob near the sun might be a poor attempt at the rainbow over the ark drawing that appears in some charts. They have the similar bow-shaped line over the top, and the lack of shading below it suggests the sky seen in in them. It's just hard to see if that's meant to be another ark.
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