Some thoughts on the history of
The Tracing Boards
ILLUSTRATIONS: FIGURE 12


Third Degree Tracing Board. John Browne’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC vol. lxxv, 1962]
-objects like strings of beads, possibly representing three lodges of five F.C.s each, topmost “lodge” completed by craftsman shown catching hold of shrub.