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Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Silver Medal: Centenary of the Initiation of Prince Frederick (the Great). Berlin 1838
Date:- 1838 - Classification:- Person; Initiation/Installation; Centenary
Country of Origin:- Germany -
Description
This rare medal was struck by the Grand Lodge of the “Three Globes.” Merzdorf interprets the three female figures on reverse to represent Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty. Marvin suggests their allusion to the three Prussian Masonic Powers, viz., “The Grand National Mother Lodge of the Three Globes,” the “Grand Land L. of Germany,” and the “Grand Lodge of Prussia,” called “Royal York of Friendship,” which opinion Bro. Hughan adopts. If this supposition is correct, the figures on reverse of No. 135 (Marvin’s 363), struck by Grand Land Lodge may bear same allusion.
Obverse.—Bust turned to right, on the edge of which “C. Pfeuffer, Fec.,” below which “G. Loos Dir.” Legend, “Fredericos Prineeps Regni Boruss Heres Annos Natus xxvi, *“ (Frederick, Prince and heir of the Kingdom of Prussia, aged 26). Reverse.—A sunken field, in which three female figures surround an altar, a tongue of flame over each bead. The one on the left, crowned with stars and wearing a jewel of a double triangle, holds a square and compasses in her right hand, and in her heft one end of a cable-tow, which passes three times round the cubic stone or altar, and has three love-knots; the central figure, Minerva, wears a jewel of a radiant triangle, and has a gavel in her left hand, in her right a sword, the point extended over the altar; the one in the right has a veil thrown back on her head; she wears a jewel of a radiant star, and holds a level in her right hand, with end of cable-tow in her left. The altar is also surrounded by three pillars, its front has F incised; on its top are a crossed trowel and key; it rests upon a segment of the globe, showing a part of Germany and the boundary of Brunswick, and the words “Brusmsvicum Gerumania” in two lines, the second slightly curving. Legend, “Reeeptus In Ordinem Liberoum Latimoromo Nocte Die xiv
Properties
44 mm. Silver
