FREEMASONRY. Patent signed by 8 masons, Paris 23rd day of the 12th month of the year 5838 (1838); vellum in-plano (53 x 40 cm), with very richly illustrated symbolic engraved decoration (lithography by Chenu et Cie), blue silk ribbon, red wax seal in its metallic case (detached). Beautiful masonic patent beautifully decorated with symbolic scenes, issued by the "Venerable and Officers" of the Lodge of St. John "under the distinctive title of Mars and The Arts", attesting that Andre Pierre Danit, born in Paris July 10, 1804 "has the three symbolic grades that his zeal and purity of morals have made him cherished by all F.F. in faith of which, we have given him this certificate", he signed in the margin ...