Live auction - fjt_978454 - FREEMASONRY LOGE DE LA PARFAITE ÉGALITÉ O:. DE ROUEN, refrappe, n°265 n.d.
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Live starting : Type : LOGE DE LA PARFAITE ÉGALITÉ O:. DE ROUEN, refrappe, n°265
Date: (premier quart du XIXe siècle ?)
Date: n.d.
Quantity minted : 500
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,36 g.
Edge : lisse + corne 1 + N°265/500
Puncheon : corne 1
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Taches noires d’oxydation. Présence de quelques rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOGE DE LA PARFAITE ÉGALITÉ O:. DE ROUEN - ÉTOILE.
Obverse description : Compas de géomètre et équerre entrelacés, mêlés de branches d’acacia, au milieu une étoile flamboyante avec un G central , classification Outils 1 dans le Labouret mais sans la cassure de coin illustrée avec l’exemplaire de la Collection de la Grande Loge de France.
Reverse
Reverse description : Autel surmonté d'un livre ouvert. De chaque côté, un squelette debout, une colonne placée derrière chaque squelette. Sur l'une, J ; sur l'autre, B. le tout surmonté d’un delta lumineux. Classification Squelettes 2 dans le Labouret - compas branches droites et équerre plus longue et biseautée.
Commentary
Sur ce jeton, le symbolisme est partout au droit et au revers. La scène du revers est particulièrement intéressante avec la représentation d’une loge et de son carré magique aux pieds d’un autel qui repose sur un escalier composé de sept marches. Les colonnes sont ornées des lettres J. pour Jakin et B pour Boaz, mots de passe des deux premiers grades avec les outils attachés à ces colonne, l’équerre et le compas.
Historical background
FREEMASONRY
The compass and the square are very often associated in an ambivalent symbol of balance: fixity and mobility, passive and active, matter and spirit.. The compass is the tool of the Creator and of the great Architect of the Universe. The spacing of the branches of the compass obeys precise rules and varies according to the three degrees: apprentice, companion, master. The Napoleonic era, in the activity of lodges as in that of many groups, saw a flowering after the terrible years of the revolutionary period. Masonic activity, rid of its republican theories and firmly controlled by a Grand-Master appointed by the Emperor, experienced a vigor in unity never found since.. It is considered that each regiment, each garrison, each city had its Lodge. The testimonies that the sumptuous tokens of the period leave us show that these lodges were rich and influential.. The symbolism is sought after, without comparison with the later eras, which were much more conventional, even bland or destitute at the beginning of the 20th century.. Freemasonry had more than a thousand lodges spread over one hundred and thirty departments and more than sixty thousand Brothers.
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