1948 Grand Chapter Royal Arch 14k Gold Past High Priest Medal Masonic Rarity
Vintage Royal Arch Mason Past High Priest. 14K Solid Gold Medal with the name J Irwin Dugan (see bio below) engraved on it. I don't believe the large round metal is solid gold, it is not marked in any way.
Weighs approximately 43.9 grams total weight. This year marks 60 years in the antique and art business in the Los Angeles area and at one time Las Vegas and San Rafael, CA. Up until 2006 we had two large stores in Los Angeles, Larchmont Village Estate Jewelry and Antiques was in Hancock Park on Larchmont Blvd and the other on Melrose and called Melrose Antique which specialized in Mid-Century. My time is spent searching leads and estate sales. My wife and I have held local estate sales for over 30+ years and have a very competent staff which helps us.
We operate the A PLUS Estate Sale Service and Antique Gallery in Fort Mohave, Arizona. My first love are paintings done in France, 1900 to 1950. This is called the School of Paris which included artist from around the world who worked and studied in France. I have over 300 such paintings. Many are listed on the Ruby Lane site under our shop name, Larchmont Village Antiques.My wife's specialty is antique jewelry and has been running our stores since 1981. Always feel free to ask questions and I'll do my best to answer promptly. I give you many examples of scary quotes by them. The package MUST be insured. Cartoonist Irvin Dugan (February 8, 1892-March 17, 1982) was born in Huntington.
He worked as a Huntington newspaper artist from 1927 until his retirement in 1957. For many years, his''Adam'' cartoon character was a feature on the editorial pages of the Herald-Dispatch and the Sunday Herald-Advertiser. Adam, a little old man with a handlebar mustache and a corncob pipe, was created during World War II to promote the sale of war bonds. The caption read,''Here's mine. Treasury Department distributed the cartoon nationwide, and it was widely reprinted.After the war, Adam crusaded for various civic improvements and causes. Dugan said he named his creation Adam because, like the character of that name in Shakespeare's''As You Like It,'' he was''short of stature and long on wisdom. Many well-known individuals, including coal mine labor leader John L. Lewis and Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, wrote Dugan asking for originals of his cartoons.
In 1974, Dugan donated a collection of such letters and 500 Adam originals to Marshall University. After retirement, Dugan moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he died.