Live auction - fme_597670 - PRINTING AND STATIONERY Médaille, Jean Gutenberg, inventeur de l’imprimerie
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 27 October 2020 19:29:18 |
Type : Médaille, Jean Gutenberg, inventeur de l’imprimerie
Date: n.d.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 75 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DESCHAMPS Léon (1860-1928)
Weight : 196,8 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Large médaille à la patine brune hétérogène avec de légères marques d’usure sur les hauts reliefs. Exemplaire placé dans une boîte cartonnée grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : JEAN GVTENBERG. INVENTEVR DE L’IMPRIMERIE NE EN 1400 MORT EN 1468..
Obverse description : Buste de Jean Gutenberg à gauche sur un fond de petites croix décoratives, signé : LEON DESCHAMPS.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LA LVMIERE FVT.
Reverse description : Machine à imprimer, branches de laurier et palmes à l’arrière. Des livres ouvert au sol.
Commentary
Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) est un imprimeur dont l’invention des caractères métalliques mobiles en Europe a été déterminante dans la diffusion des textes et du savoir.
Historical background
PRINTING AND STATIONERY
The printing press was known in the Far East long before it was invented in the West. In the middle of the 15th century, inspired by the processes used to manufacture playing cards and wishing to manufacture a Bible at a lower cost and in series, Gutenberg (and Johann Fuchs) developed the typographic printing process with movable type, the ink making, typesetting techniques and the printing press. Printing made rapid progress in Europe, it was introduced in France in 1469. Later progress perfected the process like lithography (late 18th century). Printers, assimilated to the body of booksellers under the Ancien Régime, were closely watched until 1881 when the law of July 29 proclaimed the complete freedom of the trade..
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