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Silver Medal: Harmony, Honour and Humanity Havre 1813

Date:- 1813 - Classification:- Lodge/Chapter Etc.; Anniversary

Country of Origin:- France -

Description

The Lodge now known as that of Les Trois H., or “ The Three H’s,” was founded and is still working, with a Chapter of Rose Croix, and Areopagus (30th Grade of A. and A. Rite) attached. This medal would therefore be struck to commemorate its 20th anniversary. There are several varieties struck for this Lodge from dies having only slight differences, detected only by careful comparison. Marvin’s 122 and 123 are engraved in T. N. N., Plate 58, Fig. 10 and 11, but the above seems more closely to resemble one in Mr. Poillon’s collection, see M., Note 376.

Obverse—An altar, on which lies an open hook, approached by seven steps; the front of the altar has an inscription, “Pro Deo et Patnia” (For God and Fatherland) ; above is a radiant delta enclosing the Hebrew tetragnammaton; below, on the right, is the sun, and on the left the moon; on each side of the altar is a pillar, the left one has the squane and compasses on its base, and that on the right a level. In the near of the altar thene is a mosaic pavement. In exergue, in three lines, ‘. Des. H. H. H. 0.-. Du Havre 5813.” (Lodge of the three H’s, Orient of Havre, 1813.)

Reverse.—The square and compasses, enclosing a five-pointed blazing star, and on either side a branch of myrtle, the stems tied with a ribbon. Legend, “Harmonia, Honor, Humanitas, Regnnt.” (Harmony, Honor, and Humanity rule.)

Properties

29mm. Silver