I am sending this to a number of mailing lists that we belong to. Hopefully, someone out there might know what they are. First of all, I received this last Winter a trunk that had what I was told was probably Masonic "hardware" in it and that it belonged to my Grandfather who died in 1960. My step-grandmother just died at 101, so that is why it took so long to get here! In looking at the various items, one set of items intrique me and I am not sure they are Masonic. There are two what I would call "suspenders". About two inches wide, heavy leather on one side (which is red). That is the back side. Am not sure what the material is on the front side, but it is red, gold and green stripes (small stripes). On each strap are two metal slide on gold "emblems" connected by chains. The top emblem is described as follows: Center top is what looks like an eye. Below the eye is an horizontal three linke chain. There are twelve "lines" spreading out from the eye in a half circle, bottom half of a circle, connecting the eye and the chain. Below this, the emblem is divided in three parts. Top left is what looks like a lamb, lying on the grass. Top right is definitely a male lion, reared up and ready to fight. Bottom center emblem made of eight crossed swords and sheperds staff. The latin word PAXAUT is under the top left emblem (the lamb). The latin word BELLUM is under the top right emblem (the lion). The bottom metal gold emblem has PATRIARCHS MILITANT written across the top. In the center, full size, is a solder's shield. Top right on the shield is a crown. Written across the sheild diagonally from top left to bottom right are the words JUSTITIA UNIVERSALIS. Behind the shield is a sword and a sheperds staff. This is where my four years of Latin might help: PAXAUT - Pax is the Latin word for Peace BELLUM - Bellum is the Latin word for War JUSTITIA - There is no "j" in Latin, replaced with an "i" - basically means right or justice UNIVERSALIS - Modified from the Latin word Universum (plural) meaning All. So I know what it says, but what organization did they belong to? The crown throws me as it may be a "foreign" organization. My husband wonders if it may be Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic organization. My grandfather was not Catholic, but his second wife was before they were married. And her father may have been. Don and Mary in Wyoming