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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



design of a single or double heart, crowned, and also to the simpler 

 forms of a heart alone. The Masonic badges seem also to be 

 imitated from originals, but they need not necessarily have been 

 Scottish. 



I enclose a short note by a former fellow of this society, Robert 

 Sheills of Neenah, Wisconsin, which gives some curious facts that 

 tend to explain the widespread dissemination of these brooches 

 from the old country among the Indian allies of the British both 

 in Canada and the States. I also add a page of our museum 

 catalog on which some of the Scottish specimens of the Lucken- 

 booth brooches are figured. 



Yours very truly 

 To Arthur C. Parker [Signed] Joseph Anderson 



New York State Museum 

 Albany, N. Y. 



The inclosure in this letter illustrating the Scotch Luckenbooth 

 brooches is reproduced herewith. The leaves from the Proceed- 

 ings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, February 12, 1900, 

 pages 220, 222, sent as an inclosure with the letter contain the 

 following record : 



Scotch Luckenbooth brooches. 



