When
a lodge can demonstrate one hundred years of continuous working it can apply
for a ‘centenary warrant’ and its members are allowed to wear a centenary
jewel. A decorative bar is available for bicentenaries.
The earliest jewels were different for
each lodge, but in 1865 a standard pattern was established featuring a snake
biting its tail, symbolic of eternity, combined with a rope knot without an end
and ‘C’ the Latin letter for 100 all within a sky blue border with the name of
the Lodge. There have only been one or two variants to this jewel since the
1860s.
