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Live auction - fjt_589539 - FREEMASONRY LES AMIS DE LA LIBERTE 1797

FREEMASONRY LES AMIS DE LA LIBERTE AU
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Estimate : 120 €
Price : 60 €
Maximum bid : 60 €
End of the sale : 27 October 2020 19:06:39
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : LES AMIS DE LA LIBERTE
Date: 1797
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,36 g.
Edge : Cannelée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : EN DEUX LIGNES : LIBERTÉ / ÉGALITÉ.
Obverse description : Dans une couronne de chêne, B sous la couronne.

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONSOCIARE - AMAT.
Reverse description : Minerve casquée tenant de la main droite un niveau au-dessus d’un mur en construction. La main gauche tient une lance. A ses pieds, on retrouve les outils du maçon.
Reverse translation : Elle aime à réunir.

Commentary


Nous suivons l’analyse de Marc Labouret attribuant ce jeton à la loge Les Amis de la Liberté. Hénin affirme que le graveur symbolisé par la lettre B à l’avers est Bernier, membre de la loge des Neuf Soeurs. Tandis que Mitchiner attribue le B à J.-J. Bachelier.

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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