Live auction - fjt_787563 - FREEMASONRY VALENCIENNES, SAINT JEAN DU DESERT n.d.
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | 239 € |
| Maximum bid : | 251 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 January 2023 19:19:46 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : VALENCIENNES, SAINT JEAN DU DESERT
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : VALENCIENNES
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,72 g.
Edge : Cannelée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Equerre et compas entrecroisés autour d’une étoile flamboyante portant la lettre G, surmontés de trois groupes de trois étoiles et le tout dans une couronne de chêne et d’acacia.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CHARITAS * NOS VOCAT *.
Reverse description : Saint Jean Baptiste montrant le soleil, près de lui, l’agneau marchant à gauche.
Reverse translation : La charité nous appelle.
Commentary
Comme l’indique Marc Labouret, cette “loge fusionne en 1811 avec la Parfaite Union sous le titre de La Parfaite Union et Saint Jean du Désert réunis”.
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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