velin - Lot 341

velin [FREEMASONRY] Diplôme de Maîtrise du Frère Alexis-Nicolas ALLAIRE de la Respectable Loge de la Paix, Orient de Stenay (Meuse). Certificate of Mastery printed on vellum skin and established on the 21st day of the second month of the Year of True Light five thousand eight hundred and seven (1807), signed by the representatives of the General Symbolic Grand Lodge, the General Administration Grand Lodge and the General Grand Chapter with its 3 wax seals and bucket closed in a metal case; and countersigned on verso. 48.5 x 53 cm We find a poem by Brother Allaire in "les Annales Maçonniques dédiées à son Altesse Sérénissime le prince Cambacérès, Archi-Chancelier de l'Empire et Grand Maître [...] en France, par Caillot, Paris, 1808, tome V page 181 : le bonheur du maçon, cantique. See lots 99 and 182 of September 13, 2023.