Knights Templar Sash
date: label: Date made
content: 1930
label: date made
content: c 1930
name: label: user
content: Dixon, William Gerard
notes: label: Description
content: Black velvet sash with white satin ribbon running down the middle. Silver medallion in the shape of a eight-pointed star and a red enamel cross pinned to it, with the inscription: "IN HOC SIGNO VINCES." This piece of regalia was worn 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: general subject association
content: Fraternal Associations
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1982.0442.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0442
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0442.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sash
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ribbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 70 1/4 in x 4 in x 1/8 in; 178.435 cm x 10.16 cm x .3175 cm