ODD FELLOWS PATRIARCHS MILITANT FRATERNAL SWORD AND SCABBARD (RARE) - $300 - (Butte, MT)

THE ODD FELLOWS PATRIRCHS MILITANT WAS ESTABLISHED CIRCA 1841 DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AS A BRANCH OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE IN THE IOOF (INDEPENDANT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS). AS A PURELY SEMI -MILITARY ORGANIZATION FOR CHIVALRIC DISPLAY. THIS ORDER IS VERY CLOSLEY RELATED TO THE MASONS, ABOUT AS CLOSE AS ONE CAN GET WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING MASONIC. MADE BY THE M.C. LILLEY & COMPANY.RESEARCH OF THE MANUFACTURE INDICATES THAT SWORD DATES FROM 1882-1825

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