E-auction 703-769720 - LOVE AND MARRIAGE Médaille de mariage, Evangile de St Mathieu
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Type : Médaille de mariage, Evangile de St Mathieu
Date: 1900
Metal : silver
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver PETIT Louis-Michel (1791-1844)
Weight : 25,01 g.
Edge : gravée : E. LIBERT et R. LAFONTAINE + corne ARGENT + UNIS LE 13 9BRE 1900.
Puncheon : corne ARGENT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire nettoyé, quelques taches, principalement au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Terisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : QUE L’HOMME DONC NE SEPARE / PAS CE QUE DIEU A UNI // S. MATHIEU CHAP. XIX.
Obverse description : Les mariés agenouillés, vêtus à l’antique, face à face, se tenant la main droite, l’époux à gauche, l’épouse à droite. L’homme lève la main gauche pour prêter serment sur le livre ouvert qui est appuyé sur la croix de l’autel situé en arrière plan, signé : PETIT F. à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ER.
Reverse description : Initiales E et R encerclées d’une couronne de fleurs.
Commentary
Médaille dédiée aux noms des époux : Libert et Lafontaine.
Medal dedicated to the names of the spouses: Libert and Lafontaine
Medal dedicated to the names of the spouses: Libert and Lafontaine
Historical background
LOVE AND MARRIAGE
It was customary in the past to give a treizain during the wedding mass. This treizain was blessed and signified entry into a community of property for the married couple. The treizain, which later became a medal or wedding token, was so called in honor of Jesus Christ and the twelve apostles. This practice continued until the first half of the 20th century. The reference work on the subject is the work of Jules Florange, Love and marriage in numismatics, Moulins, 1936 now replaced by that of Henri Térisse, La Numismatique du Mariage, Argenton-sur-Creuse 2008.
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