Blackmer Lodge is proud to offer another Ken Fritts' original blackpowder rifle ($1,500.00 value) in a raffle to benefit The Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, The Masonic and Eastern Star Home and the North Carolina Masonic Foundation. This is a beautiful hand crafted circa 1825 North Carolina style .40 caliber flintlock rifle.

This one of a kind flintlock is finished in curly maple and inlayed with Masonic symbols. It is definitely heirloom quality and would make for a great Christmas gift!

The drawing will be held at Blackmer Lodge on Tuesday, November 16, 2004, prior to our regular meeting. This raffle is open to all and you do not have to be present to win. If we cannot deliver the rifle to the winner, arrangements will be made to have it shipped to you.

For a chance at this beautiful piece, please send a check or money order in the amount of $5.00 per ticket, to Blackmer Lodge No. 127 Raffle, P. O. Box 265, Mount Gilead, NC 27306 (please make the check or money order payable to: Blackmer Lodge No. 127). Do not forget to include your contact information! Ticket stubs will be mailed out as proof of purchase.

If you are not interested in keeping the rifle, Ken has offered to buy buy it back from the winner for $1,000.00. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the webmaster.

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