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Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Silver Medal:. Triple Unité Ecossaise. Paris 1804
Date:- 1804 - Classification:- Lodge/Chapter Etc.; Members
Country of Origin:- France -
Description
Merzdorf gives the size incorrectly as 23 millimetres. It is 29 millimetres, (or 18 sixteenths of an inch) American scale, The Lodge was founded September 25, 1801, but is now extinct.
Obverse.—Three triangles interlaced, and forming a nine-pointed star; in the centre, a Maltese cross in a circle, surrounded by rays which extend as far as the points of the triangle. Legend, “Triple Unite Ecossaise” (Scottish Lodge of Threfold Unity, &c,) “0,’, De Paris, 5804,”
Reverse.—Within a circle formed by a serpent devouring its tail, the square and compasses, upon a circle of rays enclosing the letter G Below the serpent, bunches of laurel and olive crossed. Legend, "Elle unit les hommes” (Itunites mankind),