Live auction - fjt_1017942 - FREEMASONRY LES AMIS DE LA LIBERTE 1797
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| Starting price : | 35 € |
| Estimate : | 70 € |
| Price : | 35 € |
| Maximum bid : | 35 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 May 2025 19:17:40 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : LES AMIS DE LA LIBERTE
Date: 1797
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure et de rayures. Ancien nettoyage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUD. XVI. REX - CHRISTIANISS..
Obverse description : Buste de Louis XVI à droite, signé DUVIV..
Obverse translation : Louis XVI, Roi très chrétien .
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
La légende de revers est extraite des Odes d'Horace (4.II, od.3, v.10). Ce jeton, qui reprend, en lui supprimant son exergue et sa date, un revers de la série des bâtiments du Roi, a été utilisé comme "jeton banal" par des loges maçonniques trop pauvres pour faire frapper leurs propres jetons. Il est aussi attribué sans preuve aux architectes. L’analyse de Marc Labouret, qu’il n’y a aucune raison de ne pas suivre, l’attribue à la Loge Les Amis de la Liberté. Cette loge fondée en 1790 fusionnera avec la loge Saint-Louis de la Martinique en 1797 sous le nouveau nom de Loge le Point Parfait.
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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