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Banner, Independent Order of Rechabite
1902,
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Banner, Independent Order of Rechabite
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50897
Title
Blue silk banner for the Independent Order of Rechabites
Description
One blue silk banner for the Independent Order of Rechabites. The banner has a yellow silk border and similar painted decoration on both sides. The title scroll cartouche reads, 'INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES', with, 'SALFORD UNITY EDINBURGH DISTRICT, No. 35', below. The centre panel features a coat of arms with the motto, 'PEACE AND PLENTY THE REWARD OF TEMPERANCE', below, 'LIGHTHOUSE TENT NO 1400', and, 'NEWHAVEN', and, 'INSTITUTED 1896'. There are cameos on the left and right, the left depicting a Newhaven Street and on the right a rough sea at night.
Date
1902
Size
269 x 303 cm
Location
The People's Story
Accession number
HH5754/95
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The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries ; The People's Story
The Rechabites were a temperance Friendly Society, who organised into Tents. This banner, painted in 1902 incorporates a design for the earlier Beacon Light Tent, Instituted in 1895, and that of the Lighthouse Tent, instituted in 1895.
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