Augis French Love Token

circa 1930

2.70 grams

13.10mm x 18.35mm

stones:diamond & ruby

An Augis love token is a piece of jewelry inscribed with the phrase “+ qu’hier – que demain,” meaning "more than yesterday, less than tomorrow". This sentiment comes from a 19th-century poem by Rosemonde Gérard and symbolizes a love that grows continuously stronger. The jeweler Alphonse Augis was inspired to create these tokens, which often use the mathematical symbols for plus (+) and minus (-) instead of the words "more" and "less," sometimes accented with gems.