Knights Templar Sword Belt
date: label: Date made
content: prior to 1930
name: label: user
content: Dixon, William Gerard
notes: label: Description
content: Leather sword belt with black and white grain ribbon. Three metal fasteners and a hook, as welll as silver metal buckle in rectangular shape with a cross infilled with clear red enamel. The inscription above the cross reads "IN HOC SIGNO VINCES." This piece of regalia was used by William Gerard Dixon, a member of Tancred Commandery No. 50 in Belleville, Illinois. The Knights Templar is a fraternal organization related to Freemasonry (called an "appendant body").
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: used
content: Freemasonry
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content: Home and Community Life: Community Organizations
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Alan J. Dixon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0442.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0442
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0442.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ribbon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 97.155 cm x 4.445 cm