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Help with two pendants please
« on: Tuesday 22 April 14 16:53 BST (UK) »
I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what the writing on the one pendant is, and what the shape on the other represents.  I think that they are both Jewish, but could not find all the symbols in the Jewish alphabet. 

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Re: Help with two pendants please
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 22 April 14 22:34 BST (UK) »
Nookie, don't know about the left hand one with the script but the right hand one is a silver watch fob, worn on a chain for a waistcoat.

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Re: Help with two pendants please
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 22 April 14 23:13 BST (UK) »
The white item on the left appears to be a "keystone" and has a masonic significance.
Possibly worn as a watch fob ?
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Re: Help with two pendants please
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 22 April 14 23:52 BST (UK) »
The first one is a Masonic keystone and the Hebrew characters may correspond to KSHTWSST.
The "K.S.H.T.W.S.S.T." symbol on a headstone indicates that the person had completed the crytic degrees of the York Rite and was a "Royal Arch Mason" in the York Rite Degrees of Freemasonry.
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: Help with two pendants please
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 23 April 14 05:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you both so very much.  I never even gave Freemasonry a thought - was so sure that they were both of Jewish origin.

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