Live auction - fme_979199 - FREEMASONRY Médaille, Pose de la première pierre du temple maçonnique, Grand Orient de France
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| Starting price : | 60 € |
| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 17 December 2024 14:47:22 |
Type : Médaille, Pose de la première pierre du temple maçonnique, Grand Orient de France
Date: 1843
Metal : copper
Diameter : 40,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 35,78 g.
Edge : lisse + proue CUIVRE
Puncheon : Proue (1842 - 1845)
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène, présentant des taches d’oxydation. Plusieurs coups et rayures, notamment sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : *G.: O.: DE (TÉTRAGRAMME DANS UN TRIANGLE RADIÉ) FRANCE.* - OMNIBUS (ÉQUERRE) UNUS. // * / TEMPLE MAC.: / POSE DE LA 1RE PIERRE / IX AOUT MDCCCXLI / - / INAUGURE / XX.IV JUIN / M.DCCC.XLIII..
Obverse description : Légende circulaire et en 6 lignes horizontales dans un ouroboros .
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEUS MUMQUE JUS. // 5843. / SAGESSE - HUMANITE - UNION. .
Reverse description : Portique à deux ouvertures en plein cintre, quatre colonnes engagées, une sculpture au centre, le tout sous un aigle bicéphale couronné tenant un glaive. Signé : V. F. et BESSAIGNET F..
Reverse translation : Dieu et mon droit.
Commentary
Comme l’explique Marc Labouret, Le Grand Orient de France peine à trouver un siège après son enracinement rue du Four. Les précédents locaux n’étant plus adaptés aux activités de la Franc-Maçonnerie, il devenait urgent de déménager vers des locaux plus vastes. C’est le 9 août 1841 que la première pierre est posée rue Léon Jouhaux dans le cinquième arrondissement. Le temple sera inauguré en 1843. Par la suite, l’obédience déménagera à nouveau en 1852 vers la rue Cadet.
De rite et d’obédience du Grand Orient De France.
De rite et d’obédience du Grand Orient De France.
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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