Watch List notes:

Fraternal Society: Grand United Lodge of Oddfellows, Gravesend No. 1, engraved oval silver jewel, an ornament from which suspended a pair of vignettes, hands of friendship, knuckles and thumbs touching, little fingers crossed and two caricature faces each with exaggerated nose, below larger vignette of Britannia seated with lion and shield, her spear topped with a Phrygian (or Liberty) cap, Lodge named in wide legend around, rev. blank but for 'Britannia Lodge' over I C cypher and 'No 1', 114 x 78mm, fixed suspension loop, London hallmark for 1797, maker Richard Lee, much as made, extremely fine
The earliest Lodges of Oddfellows, as we would recognise them today, seem to be of the 18th century, the Loyal Aristarchus Oddfellow Lodge, documented in 1748, is Lodge no. 9, with a Grand Lodge founded in Manchester in 1798. The cataloguer has been unable to trace the origins of the Gravesend Lodge, be it No. 1 or No. 2
(400-600 GBP)