Live auction - fme_577414 - FREEMASONRY UNION DES FRANCS MAÇONS DE FRANCE ET D’ITALIE
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| Estimate : | 380 € |
| Price : | 280 € |
| Maximum bid : | 328 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 June 2020 18:45:35 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : UNION DES FRANCS MAÇONS DE FRANCE ET D’ITALIE
Date: 1808
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 39,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,81 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine sombre. La médaille présente quelques coups et rayures avec des marques d’usure sur les hauts reliefs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux faisceaux de licteurs non capés d’une hache font les deux colonnes, nouées d’un lacs d’amour en haut et de deux rubans en bas, posées sur un socle triangulaire pointe en haut, d’un décor de symboles maçonniques avec croisés au sol un caducée et une épée flamboyante, sous un couronne de chêne continue enrubannée portant banace, équerre et compas, le tout entrecroisé.
Les faisceaux de licteurs, outre les deux colonnes du Temple, représentent les francs-maçons français et italiens.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ITALIAE GALLIARUMQ. / ARCANAE. SAPIENTIAE / HIEROPHANTIS / SANCTIORI. FOEDERE / SOCIATIS. MEDIOL. ANNO V:. L :. 5808.
Reverse description : Légende en 6 lignes.
Reverse translation : Aux initiés du savoir secret d’Italie et de France associés par un pacte sacré à Milan, l’an de la vraie lumière 5808 (traduction Labouret).
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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