Skull, Links, Compass, Flag, All Seeing Eye: Pair of Linked Locks Odd Fellows + Masonic Whimsy 1893 Chicago worlds fair but then undermined by the

but then undermined by the cut of the paper and uneven inking of the left side in a way I really like

good on their own or grouped in clusters

and figures praying over baby Jesus in his crib below it--but the design got a bit abstracted along the way

Based on the scale and nail at the front of the rolling base

These blocks are beautiful

Skull, Links, Compass, Flag, All Seeing Eye: Pair of Linked Locks Odd Fellows + Masonic Whimsy 1893 Chicago worlds fair but then undermined by theA fun whimsy for an Odd Fellow, of a Freemason, or better yet both, with three links (FLT) on one lock, below a skull and cross, I believe identifying it specifically as Odd Fellows, while the square and compass on the other identifies it as Masonic. (It was not at all uncommon for men to belong to both, as was surely the case here.) Plus an all seeing eye with very fluttery eyelashes, and an American flag too. And with the carved locks themselves