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Massachusetts Consistory

The Massachusetts

Consistory of the Scottish

Rites was started in Lowell

in July 1860. It received its

charter in 1862 and was

relocated to Boston in 1871.

The corkscrew knife is marked MERIDEN BRAND on the blade. One side is

engraved

“

Massachusetts Consistory

”

and the other has the initials C. H. W.