This is a RARE and original 1858 Freemason's Scottish Rite certificate for Basilio Carrillo of New Orleans, LA. His credentials are - in part - 'Secret Master, Perfect Master, Intimate Secretary, Provost and Judge....Illustrious Elected of the Fifteen, Sublime Knight of the East and Prince of Jerusalem, and Knight of the East. He is further certified to be a Grand Elect Knight Kadosh and is now - with this certificate - at the 30th degree of the 'A and A Rite' in the Louisiana State Chapter of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States located in South Carolina. In 1855, the Polar Star Lodge (in New Orleans) was dissolved and became the Los Amigos Del Okden Lodge #5 with Basilio Carrillo named as its first W. M. He was a delegate to the 1857 Convention, held in New Orleans, and seems to have been a well-known and important member of the Freemasons in Louisiana. 
the certificate is complete with its black ribbons and black paper seals. It is also mounted on an early backboard and surrounded by a white cloth frame. 
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