International Masonic Federation Master Mason certificate for John Kulczycki
Description:
A clandestine Master Mason certificate issued by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), to John Kulczycki and dated 1921. Clandestine Scottish Rite Master Mason certificate 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).
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Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.
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