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Canadian Countermark

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Canada Start Price:100.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 CAD
Canadian Countermark
SOLD
190.00CAD+ buyer's premium
This item SOLD at 2016 Jul 20 @ 22:36UTC-4 : AST/EDT


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Canadian Countermark - St. Andrews Chapter countermark on obv. of New Brunswick penny, 1843, Br 909 (M.I. 855, Brunk S-807).

In Masonic chapter pennies: The Albert M. Hanauer Collection, edited and compiled by E. A. King, Pittsburgh, 1926, one of these countermarks is described (no. 14003) over an 1854 New Brunswick penny. He gives as a short history that This Chapter was originally Chartered by the Supreme Grand Chapter of Scotland, Dec. 26th, 1832 under the number 55. United in the formation of the Grand Chapter of Nova Scotia, October 14th, 1869. J. Ross Robertson’s history of the lodge is of great interest and gives it more antiquity than the entry presented in King’s book. In The History of Freemasonry in Canada ..., volume one, Toronto, 1900, he states: Between 1757 and 1791 there were three lodges in this province, viz.: ?St. Andrew’s Lodge, No. 4, in Halifax, N.S.,” warranted 26th March 1768 as No. 155. It was No. 188 in 1814, No. 137 in 1832, and No. 118 in 1863. This lodge met ?at the sign of the General Amherst” in this year (1768). It was granted a centenary warrant second lodge, said to be known as ?General Amherst’s Lodge,” No. 156, was warranted in 1768, but there are no records after that year. It is numbered in the Ahiman Rezon of 1804 and 1807 the same as in 1768. (Marked Impressions).

Note: this lot is part of The Richard Cooper Collection.