FRANKLIN MINT BICENTENNIAL SULPHIDES
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Bicentennial set of 10
sulphides: $400.00. The set includes, original
display cases, Certificates of Authenticity, reference and historical
biographical information for 4 of the sets. One reference folder
is missing for John Adams & Baron de Montesquieu.
Although issued through the Franklin Mint, the Cameo Sulphides were
made by Baccarat and Cristal d' Albret and their team of
expert portrait sculptors. All are of excellent quality and in
like new condition.
Text describing the
Bicentennial Collection is from the reference folders
accompanying the collection.
"The Bicentennial Collection of
Cameos in Crystal is a complete series of ten cameo portraits set in
the finest full lead crystal.
Five honor eminent Frenchmen who contributed to American independence
and the establishment of this nation, its ideals and
government. Five others commemorate great American patriots of
our Revolutionary period. The collection is issued in pairs,
saluting a Frenchman and an American who are in a very real sense
counterparts. Recalling that the last half of the eighteenth
century was truly a time "when giants strode the earth."
thought who were not afraid to put their beliefs into action.
Their lives, their political and social philosophies differed,
offering,
interesting contrasts, yet they were one in recognizing the individual
and in opposing tyranny. Rousseau's Social Contract
anticipates Jefferson's Declaration
of Independence"
"The naval heros John Paul Jones and Admiral de Grasse both comtributed
to America's freedom of the seas. Jones commanded
the American fleet in a series of exciting, decisive battles, but if it
hadn't been for de Grasse's assistance, the final battle of the war
off Yorktown might have been lost."
"The warriors of independence, George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette both preferred
plowshares to swords, yet fought
side-by-side for a couse they believed in.Lafayette was later to play
an important part in the French Revolution of 1789, the year his
close friend and formaer Commander-in-Chief became the first President
of the United States."
"Benjamin Franklin and King Louis XVI of France might seem
to be an odd coupling: the aristocratic Bourbon ruler and the
democratic Pennsylvania patriot. However, both werethe architects
of the French-American Alliance during the War for
Independence and in the years following. And both, in their own
way, were men of the eighteenth-century enlightenment who
had scientific and other interests in common."
"Finally, the Bicentennial Collection
of Cameos in Crystal commemorates the French philosopher Baron de la Brede et de
Montesquieu, who put into
indelible words the theory of the separation of governmental powers,
and John Adams, a practical
American statesman, who defended that theory and helped develop it into
our check-and-balance system of Executive,
Judicial and Legislative branches."
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