425, Lot: 748. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal (Restored) to Second Empire. Louis Philippe to Napoléon III. 1830-1870. AR Medal (33mm, 12.24 g, 12h). Freemason Lodge issue. By Jakin and Boaz. Manufactured after 1845-1860. (star) LOGE DE LA PARFAITE ÉGALITÉ O (triple pellets) DE ROUEN, Masonic emblem intertwined with laurel / Two skeletons, the left holding shepherd’s staff and level over open book set on altar, the right crowned and holding scepter, standing vis-à-vis; radiant tetragrammaton above; on either side, column set on base: the left decorated with a J and a compass; the right with a B and a carpenter’s square; all set on raised tile platform with seven curved steps leading to it. W.T.R Marvin, The Medals of the Masonic Fraternity Described and Illustrated (Boston, 1880), p. 50-1, XCI. EF, toned, light marks.

Ex Maison Platt FPL (December 2005), lot 3582.