Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint ledger drawing Since I found them together

Since I found them together and think the more the better with these

painting in very good condition

and with a bit research I've learned that it is a keystone indicative of the Royal Arch Masonry (also known as "Capitular Masonry")--the first part of the American York Rite system of Masonic degrees and said by many to be "the most beautiful degree" in all of Freemasonry

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Early 20th C. Odd Fellows Carved Hourglass in Gold and Silver Paint ledger drawing Since I found them togetherWhat better object, and symbol, and reminder (!) than an hourglass? This is an earlyish 20th century fraternal one, probably Odd Fellows, found in Upstate New York, carved of wood and clad in its original silver and gold paint, nicely mellowed now. There are earlier, much more finely carved (and very precious) examples of these out there, but I like the simplicity and sort of matter of factness of this one as if wanting to be very direct in