An early start yesterday morning, to get up to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Antrim headquarters in Templepatrick, where the planned sale of old Craft WM jewels was planned to start at 10.00 AM that morning. I arrived up about 20 to 10.00 and was surprised to see the number of vehicles in the carpark. The Brethren began to assemble outside about 10 to 10.00 and the door finally opened just after 10.00am. Present, to manage the sale were Rt Wor Bro Paul Harvey, Rt Wor Bro Allen Mercer, Very Wor Bro J. Russell Millan, and Wor Bro David Martin.
Once we got upstairs, we discovered that not only were craft jewels on sale but thar a couple of Past Prior jewels, council swords, a mixture of past Excellent Kings jewels, Provincial Craft Ties Victoria Jubilee Centenary jewels, and a number of PGL Antrim plaques were also available. As you can see there was a brisk trade until I finally left just after 11.00AM.
Robert Bashford