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Live auction - fjt_434993 - FREEMASONRY LA PARFAITE UNION - VALENCIENNES 1784

FREEMASONRY LA PARFAITE UNION - VALENCIENNES AU
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Estimate : 500 €
Price : 260 €
Maximum bid : 260 €
End of the sale : 01 August 2017 19:21:49
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : LA PARFAITE UNION - VALENCIENNES
Date: 1784
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,99 g.
Edge : canellée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : CONSTANTIA. MERUERE. LUMEN. A L’EXERGUE : V.M.DCCLXXXIV.
Obverse description : Triangle entouré de rayons ; au dessous, un temple et deux têtes de face posées par terre.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LABORIS. ASSIDUI. PRAEMIUM. A L’EXERGUE, L.DE. LA. PARFAITE. UNION. A. L. O. DE. VALENCIENN..
Reverse description : Maillet, règle, équerre, truell et épée, le tout suspendu par un ruban. Dans le champ, F. S. B..
Reverse translation : Leur constance leur a valu la lumière.

Commentary


La franc-maçonnerie s’implante en France aux alentours du premier quart du XVIIIe s. sous l’influence d’aristocrates anglais. Initiatique, elle est fondée sur le rite hiramique, du nom d’Hiram de Tyr, personnage biblique, architecte du roi Salomon sur le chantier du Temple et qui a résisté à la torture sans livrer ses secrets. Hiram a aussi donné un point de départ du calendrier maçonnique commençant 4000 ans avant le calendrier chrétien. Les symboles servent de signes de reconnaissance entre les initiés, notamment des outils de constructeur de cathédrales (équerre, compas, niveau, maillet, etc.), des formes (triangle, étoile), des nombres (trois, cinq, sept) et des lettres.
Comme Monsieur Labouret l’indique dans son ouvrage “LES METAUX ET LA MEMOIRE”, ce jeton est daté de 1784, mais la loge de la Parfaite Union à Valenciennes est des plus anciennes de France, fondée en 1733 par la Grande Loge d’Angleterre. Les initiales F, S et B signifient : force, sagesse et beauté, normes des qualités que le maçon ambitionne. Pour plus d’informations, voir l’ouvrage actuellement disponible sur notre site internet : http://www.cgb.fr/les-metaux-et-la-memoire-la-franc-maconnerie-francaise-racontee-par-ses-jetons-et-medailles-labouret-marc,lm148,a.html.

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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