AMERICAN FOLK ART CARVED ODD FELLOWS HAND HEART

A carved and painted Odd Fellows “Heart-in-Hand” ceremonial staff. Provenance: the collection of Jack and Tommie Marsh of Columbia, S.C. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates 36th semiannual Americana and antiques auction June 2019. Read more at Antiques and the Arts Weekly

Image of the Odd Fellows Society from Library of Congress.

To read on the Odd Fellows in America check out History Of American Odd Fellowship The First Decade 1878 by J L Ridgley