E-auction 156-94370 - fjt_05874 - FREEMASONRY SOCIETE DES INCAS 1866
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 34 € |
| Maximum bid : | 38 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 April 2016 18:51:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : SOCIETE DES INCAS
Date: 1866
Metal : red copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : SOCIETE DES INCAS . VALENCIENNES.
Obverse description : Un grand soleil à visage humain. Signé DEFFAUX.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PERSEVERANCE BIENFAISANCE ; EN DOUBLE LÉGENDE : 1718 19 JUIN ANNIVERSAIRE ; DANS LE CHAMP : 1866. 40E.
Reverse description : Inscription dans le champ.
Commentary
Cette société n’est pas maçonnique mais l’usage de quelques symboles et de termes communs fait souvent ranger ces jetons avec les maçonniques.
Cet exemplaire n’a pas de poinçon sur la tranche.
This society is not Masonic, but the use of some common symbols and terms often causes these tokens to be classified with the Masonic ones. This example does not have a hallmark on the edge.
Cet exemplaire n’a pas de poinçon sur la tranche.
This society is not Masonic, but the use of some common symbols and terms often causes these tokens to be classified with the Masonic ones. This example does not have a hallmark on the edge.
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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