Live auction - fjt_1006029 - FREEMASONRY Orient de Saint Quentin, Loge de Saint Jean 1744
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Live starting : Type : Orient de Saint Quentin, Loge de Saint Jean
Date: 1744
Mint name / Town : SAINT-QUENTIN
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,97 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure. Présence de points d’oxydation. Paille dans le métal à 8 heures à l’avers et 10 heures au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOGE. DE. ST. JEAN. A. L°. DE. ST. QUENTIN. CONSTITUEE. EN. 1744.
Obverse description : Temple, acacia à gauche, obélisque portant équerre, compas et phénix à droite, au-dessus, visage rayonnant (soleil), étoile flamboyante portant la lettre G, lune.
Reverse
Reverse legend : URGET. PROLIS. AMOR..
Reverse description : Une cordelière à trois lacs d’amour surmonte un triangle lumineux où sont inscrits un oeil et le tétragramme, surmontant lui-même un pélican nourrissant ses petits de ses entrailles.
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.
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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