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229 - GOLD AND SILVER: A 1726 ruling by the King’s Council of Stat…
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GOLD AND SILVER: A 1726 ruling by the King’s Council of State permitting the gold and silver hallmark concessionaire... Letters Patent from the King concerning inspections by officials responsible for hallmarks and the control of gold and silver articles, May 1771. Proclamation by the King concerning, amongst other things, the condition of the gold and silver delivered to the mints, October 1790. Decree of the National Convention relating to the gold and silver delivered to the Paris Mint, March 1793. Decree of the Convention annulling the orders relating to the compulsory exchange of gold and silver, Frimaire, Year II. Decree of the Convention granting rewards to those who discover buried or hidden gold, silver and diamonds, Brumaire, Year II (missing). Act ordering the transfer to the Mint of all gold, silver and vermeil still held in the Treasury or in the national stores, Thermidor Year 3. Act prohibiting the sale of gold and silver outside the stock exchange, Fructidor Year 3. Law of Vendémiaire, Year 4. POSTER: ‘Decree of the Executive Directory designating the assay offices where gold and silver articles from abroad must be hallmarked’, Year 7 (38x31cm). Circular of July 1813. Chromolithograph. Letter on the letterhead of the Le Mans Assay Office in Year 12 concerning 24 pieces of silverware. Certificate of gold deposit with the Bank of France for national defence, 26 August 1915. Royal Order prescribing the use of new hallmarks, 5 May 1819. Set of 15 documents.
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About the sale FREEMASONRY – HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
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Auction time 07/23/2026 at 10:10 AM
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