Lot 2619

Description

Sweden, Memorial to Masonic Grand Master Charles XV, 1872, in bronze (56mm), by Lea Ahlborn, obverse, head of Charles XV King of Sweden and Norway right, reverse, a mosaic pavement on which are two columns with globes on the top and over which falls a cable-tie with a love-knot in the centre, and tassels at the ends, between the columns is a cubic altar on which is a Master's gavel and a palm branch, and with a blazing star formed of a double triangle on the face and in the centre is the letter G, on the mosaic pavement are Masonic tools, a trowel, square, compass and level and two crossed swords, the Latin legend in the exergue translates as, 'To the eternal memory of the deceased Grand Master, and Vicar of Solomon, the Bretheren Freemasons of the Ninth Province have struck this, 1872'. Toning, otherwise extremely fine.