Live auction - fme_851736 - LOVE AND MARRIAGE Médaille de mariage transformée en boîte
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Live starting : Type : Médaille de mariage transformée en boîte
Date: 1867
Metal : gold plated silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver MONTAGNY Jean-Pierre (1789-1862)
Weight : 10,93 g.
Edge : cannelée sur les rebords + abeille ARGENT
Puncheon : Abeille (1860 - 1880) ARGENT
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’un ancien nettoyage. Présence de quelques rayures dans les champs. Traces de manipulation
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cette médaille provient de la collection Terisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Prêtre bénissant un couple, vêtu à l’antique, agenouillé devant un autel sous un dais (pallium) tenu par deux enfants de choeur. Signé : MONTAGNY F.. Poinçon à l’exergue : abeille ARGENT.
Reverse
Reverse legend : UNIS LE 30 AVRIL 1867 // CM.
Reverse description : Couronne de feuillages et de fleurs avec en son centre le monogramme des époux. Poinçon à l’exergue : abeille ARGENT.
Commentary
Médaille avec le monogramme des époux : CM
La boîte s’ouvre en deux parties en se dévissant.
Medal with the spouses' monogram: CM The box opens in two parts by unscrewing
La boîte s’ouvre en deux parties en se dévissant.
Medal with the spouses' monogram: CM The box opens in two parts by unscrewing
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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