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France - 1810

Chambre des Entrepreneurs de Maçonnerie - (bronze)

Obverse:

A bee hive, a symbol of industriousness.

Legend:

CHAMBRE DES ENTREPRENEURS DE MAÇONNERIE

Exergue:

E. ROGAT

Size:

33.5 mm.

Reverse:

Within a wreath of oak: LE 13 JANVIER 1810

Vern's Comments:

Marvin notes:

There is another piece, mentiond by Merzdorf, of which I have an impression, that may very easily be mistaken for a Masonic, and may therefore properly be described here. The obverse has a bee-hive on a low platform, with shrubs on either side, and the legend CHAMBRE DES ENTREPRENEURS DE MAÇONNERIE [Chamber of master workmen in Masonry] In exergue, ROGAT Reverse, A wreath of oak, enclosing the inscription in three lines, LE | 13 JANVIER | 1810 [January 13, 1810] It is octagonal, of bronze, and size 21 It has, as Merzdorf remarks, only an apparent connection with the Fraternity, having been struck for some gathering of operative masons pn Paris, early in the present century. The reverse is found with an obverse apparently bearing a still closer connection with the Order, the compasses, plumb and rule being interlaced, and the legend, REUNION DES ENTREPRENUERS DE MAÇONNERIE DE PARIS and under the device, L'AN 1810 JALEY FECIT. This latter obverse is also muled with one or more reverses, unnecessary to describe ⁴⁸⁶ [LOL,this is one of those mules!]

⁴⁸⁶ See Tresor Numis Napol pl 46, Nos 11 and 12, where these pieces are engraved.

Bramsen:

938. Maçonnerie de Paris. (E. Rogat.)
CHAMBRE DES ENTREPRENEURS DE MAÇONNERIE. Une ruche.
Rev: Deux branches de chêne formant couronne. Dans le champ: LE 13 JANVIER 1810.
Jeton octogone, 32 mm. - Inédite; cabinet de l'nuteur.
Cette pièce, quoique portant la date de 1810, est frappée une trentaine d'années plus tard.

d'Essling:

2141 - Réunion des entrepreneurs de maçonnerie (Rogat).
Ruche.
℞ Dans une couronne de chêne : LE 13 JANVIER 1810
Arg. octog. 32 mm.

Chambre des Entrepreneurs de Maçonnerie - (bronze)