SOLD Antique Carved Marble Masonic Keystone with Hand Held Scale engraved folk art case 1970s I think

1970s I think

with tears and rough edges here and there

became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th

and I believe dates to the earlyish 1990s

looking to me as if it might just have spotted a cat in the distance

SOLD Antique Carved Marble Masonic Keystone with Hand Held Scale engraved folk art case 1970s I thinkI didn't know much of anything about this when I purchased it; I just really fell in love with that carved hand gripping balanced scale, which speaks of justice fairly delivered to me! Certainly it appeared to me to be Masonic, 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