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Title: Early 20th century masonic type regalia identification
Post by: Velveteen on Thursday 07 June 12 09:16 BST (UK)

Among a lot of old photographs that my mother found there is this picture of my grandmother's sister's husband, John Gillibrand. He appears to be wearing some sort of masonic-style regalia, but as far as googling can make out, it doesn't seem to be Masonic, Orange Order, Oddfellow or Buffalo. He lived in Manchester, Lancashire and  this photo would have been taken somewhere between roughly 1917 and 1930. Can anyone shed light on what order he was a member of?

Thank you so much to anyone who can help:)

Title: Re: Early 20th century masonic type regalia identification
Post by: t mo on Thursday 07 June 12 09:45 BST (UK)

hi firstly it may help if you post the pic on phto restoration board hopefully they can do a clean up to help make it easier to recognise some of the regalia .
regards
trevor

Title: Re: Early 20th century masonic type regalia identification
Post by: Velveteen on Thursday 07 June 12 10:20 BST (UK)

Unfortunately this is post-clean up. I'm not sure how much further it can be improved. I might see if anything more can be done though, as all I've done is improve the contrast.

Title: Re: Early 20th century masonic type regalia identification
Post by: t mo on Thursday 07 June 12 10:26 BST (UK)

well try the folk on photo restoration board they do good work on there .
regards
trevor

Title: Re: Early 20th century masonic type regalia identification
Post by: Neil Todd on Thursday 07 June 12 23:35 BST (UK)

Could it be Manchester Unity Friendly Society?

Neil

Title: Re: Early 20th century masonic type regalia identification
Post by: RJ_Paton on Saturday 09 June 12 20:33 BST (UK)

My first thought was for the Rechabites