International Masonic Federation Mark Certificate for John Kulczycki

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Title

International Masonic Federation Mark Certificate for John Kulczycki

Description

A clandestine Mark Master Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), and dated 1921.

Clandestine Mark Master Mason certificate was issued by Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud.

Thomson's case is fully detailed in Isaac Blair Evans's The Thomson Masonic Fraud: A Study in Clandestine Masonry (Salt Lake City, UT: Privately printed, 1922).

Source

Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.
MA 007

Date

1921 06 27

Rights

This image is presented for research and educational purposes only, and may not be distributed or re-published without permission from the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library.

Language

English

Identifier

A2000/025/003

Extent

1 document; 39 x 29 cm

Provenance

Gift of the Valley of New York.

Citation

Freemasons. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, N.J.), “International Masonic Federation Mark Certificate for John Kulczycki,” digitalVGW, accessed April 27, 2024, https://digitalvgw.omeka.net/items/show/415.