Live auction - fjt_898970 - COIN PURSE, WALLET Porte-louis, la Cigale par Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy n.d.
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 255 € |
| Maximum bid : | 255 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 June 2024 16:29:27 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Porte-louis, la Cigale par Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver plated copper
Diameter : 76 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 48,42 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène, présentant de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures. L’intérieur est en excellent état
Obverse
Obverse legend : .CIGALE.
Obverse description : Jeune femme, drapée à l’antique, jouant de la cithare, au milieu des fleurs. Signé : E. DROPSY.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Champs de fleurs avec une cigale volant au centre de la composition.
Commentary
Diamètre de la boîte : 55,5 mm.
L’intérieur est doré et présente la mention EXTRA BLANC et un carré entre les trois emplacements guillochés.
L’exemplaire est signé par Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy.
Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy (1848-1923) est un graveur. Il entama son apprentissage de graveur sur métaux à Paris quai de Jemmapes auprès de la société Lemoine. Ce porte-louis décoré et gravé par Jean Baptiste Émile Dropsy permettait de ranger facilement plusieurs napoléons de 10 francs OR et de 20 francs OR à l’aide d’un système à ressorts.
Case diameter: 55.5 mm. The interior is gilded and features the word EXTRA BLANC and a square between the three guilloché locations. The copy is signed by Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy. Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy (1848-1923) was an engraver. He began his apprenticeship as a metal engraver in Paris on the Quai de Jemmapes with the Lemoine company. This Louis holder, decorated and engraved by Jean Baptiste Émile Dropsy, made it easy to store several 10-franc GOLD and 20-franc GOLD Napoleons using a spring system.
L’intérieur est doré et présente la mention EXTRA BLANC et un carré entre les trois emplacements guillochés.
L’exemplaire est signé par Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy.
Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy (1848-1923) est un graveur. Il entama son apprentissage de graveur sur métaux à Paris quai de Jemmapes auprès de la société Lemoine. Ce porte-louis décoré et gravé par Jean Baptiste Émile Dropsy permettait de ranger facilement plusieurs napoléons de 10 francs OR et de 20 francs OR à l’aide d’un système à ressorts.
Case diameter: 55.5 mm. The interior is gilded and features the word EXTRA BLANC and a square between the three guilloché locations. The copy is signed by Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy. Jean-Baptiste Émile Dropsy (1848-1923) was an engraver. He began his apprenticeship as a metal engraver in Paris on the Quai de Jemmapes with the Lemoine company. This Louis holder, decorated and engraved by Jean Baptiste Émile Dropsy, made it easy to store several 10-franc GOLD and 20-franc GOLD Napoleons using a spring system.
Historical background
COIN PURSE, WALLET
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From the Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century, deniers, écus, and then the first francs and centimes, were carried in purses, alms pouches, or small leather change purses, often attached to the belt. When, in the second half of the 19th century, the Second Empire put into circulation more than one hundred million 20-franc gold coins minted with the image of Louis Napoleon III, it was necessary to create a safe and practical system for storing and individually transporting these precious coins. The craftsmen imagined the manufacture of a sort of coin box, which took the name of coin box, then gold holder, and quickly transformed into Louis holder, the first name of the Emperor, but also a reminder of the first gold Louis created at the end of the reign of Louis XIII in 1641.
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