A Masonic apron in the collection of the Canadian Museum of History has an unusual story: produced in rural Vermont in the 1820s, seven decades later it came into the possession of Ralph Lawton Broadbent, a Canadian civil servant and Mason. This research report proposes a biography for the apron in the intervening years and hints at the multiple possible meanings that Masons might attribute to their intriguing ceremonial garments. An esoteric symbol of lodge membership and fictive brotherhood, a Masonic apron also could symbolize other relationships; in this example, the apron appears to have descended to its final owner through a female line and thus may represent the bonds between fathers-in-law and sons-in-law

加拿大历史博物馆收藏的共济会围裙有一个不同寻常的故事：1820 年代在佛蒙特州农村生产，七十年后它被加拿大公务员和梅森拉尔夫劳顿布罗德本特拥有。这份研究报告提出了围裙在随后几年中的传记，并暗示了梅森可能将其归因于其迷人的礼仪服装的多种可能含义。共济会围裙是小屋成员和虚构兄弟情谊的深奥象征，也可以象征其他关系；在这个例子中，围裙似乎是通过女性血统传给了它的最终主人，因此可能代表了岳父和女婿之间的纽带