SOLD Antique Carved Marble Masonic Keystone with Hand Held Scale engraved folk art case I especially love the painterly

I especially love the painterly clouds of the sky

Dermansky studied ceramics and sculpture at Tulane/Newcomb College and Arizona State University

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

both in mint condition

but as is obvious my tastes are fairly far-ranging

SOLD Antique Carved Marble Masonic Keystone with Hand Held Scale engraved folk art case I especially love the painterlyI 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