Scarce Hand-Engraved Silver Masonic "Senior Deacons" Folding Square and Compass baby jusus I'm not at all a

I'm not at all a photography expert

keeping the tiny ball from being lost if carrying it around

for amusing cats

and to my eye it's just formally perfect

Scarce Hand-Engraved Silver Masonic "Senior Deacons" Folding Square and Compass baby jusus I'm not at all aQuite a lovely and smart looking thing, this hand engraved silver square and compass tool would have been made for a Masonic "Senior Deacon." Through a little research I've learned it would have been carried by the Senior Deacon when guiding candidates through the rituals associated with attaining their masonic degrees. (Specifically, I've read, the compass would symbolically I presume! be used to "pierce their naked left breast," or the square