Live auction - fme_533183 - FREEMASONRY MERE LOGE ECOSSAISE DE FRANCE, CAMBACERES
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| Estimate : | 300 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 30 July 2019 17:31:23 |
Type : MERE LOGE ECOSSAISE DE FRANCE, CAMBACERES
Date: 1807
Mint name / Town : Mère loge écossaise
Metal : copper
Diameter : 41,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 39,76 g.
Edge : Lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène. Marques d’usure sur les points hauts du portrait. Traces de manipulation et aspect légèrement poreux au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : J. J. REGIS CAMBACERES PRINCE ARCHI-CHANCELIER DE L’EMPIRE.
Obverse description : Buste de Cambacérès à droite, revêtu d’un cordon maçonnique, sous le buste, épée flamboyante, équerre et compas, étoile flamboyante ; signé : LE. F :. JALEY. FT.:..
Reverse
Reverse legend : L A R :. M :. (RECTANGLE REPRÉSENTANT UN PLAN SIMPLIFIÉ D’UNE LOGE) / EC :. DE FRANCE / SOUS LE TITRE / DISTINCTIF DE ST :. / ALEXDRE:. D’EC :. ET / LE CONTRAT SOCL :. REUNIS, O :. DE PARIS, / A SON / GRAND MAITRE ; A L’EXERGUE : LE 30E JOUR DU / 1ER. MOIS 5807.
Reverse description : Dans une couronne d’acacia.
Reverse translation : Si tu creuses, tu trouveras.
Commentary
De rite de Écossais. Jean-Jacques Cambacéres fut second Consul de 1802 à 1805. Il sera l’un des principaux artisans du code napoléonien. Franc-maçon, il participera à faire initier les grands noms de l’Armée et de l’aristocratie. Cette médaille est frappée pour célébrer son élévation à la Grande Maîtrise de la Mère Loge Écossaise de France le 30 mars 1807. Cette médaille à son effigie aurait été destinée à la loge..
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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