KEMPSON, PETER (Brit.). Medallist (Maker of Buttons, Medals, &c.) of the latter end of the eighteenth century, residing at Birmingham, where in 1801 he entered into partnership with SAMUEL KINDON, under the style of KEMPSON AND KINDON. Peter and Thomas Wyon were both employed by Kempson to engrave Tokens, and J. G. Hancock to cut " a series of medals commemorating the Victories of the British armies over Napoleon, the Union with Ireland, George III., and Statesmen of the time ". Amongst Kempson's productions, I may notice : Jacob's Penny Token, 1798; — Kempson's Penny Token, 1796; — Lochleven Penny, 1797; — Welch's Penny Token, 1795 (sev. varieties, engraved by Wyon); — Yeomanry Tokens of Warwickshire (several varieties, engr. by J. G. Hancock); — Tamworth Penny Tokens (sev. var., 1797, Hancock); — Warwick Pennies, 1797 (engraved by Westwood); — Alston Halfpennies, 1796 (Wyon); George Barker's Halfpennies, 1797 and MDCCXCIX (Hancock) ; — John Clarke's Halfpenny, 1795 (Wyon); — Donald & Co's Halfpenny, 1792 (Wyon); — Kempson's Birmingham Buildings (a large series of Halfpenny Tokens, nos 141-208, Davis, Warwickshire Token Coinage); — Pye's Halfpenny Token, 1797 (Webb) ; — Kempson's Coventry Buildings, Halfpenny Tokens (Davis, op. cit., nos 395-452); — Nickson's Coventry Halfpennies (Wyon) ; — Tamworth Halfpennies (Wyon) ; — Badminton Tokens (Willets) ; — Bath Tokens (Wyon) ; — Birmingham Mining Co. Tokens (Wyon); — Blofield Tokens (Wyon); — Blything Hundred Tokens (Hancock) ; — Braintree Tokens (Wyon) ; — Bridgewater Tokens (Wyon) ; — Brunswick Tokens, circulated in London (Wyon); — Bury, P. Deck's Tokens (Wyon); — Buxton, W. R. Hay's Tokens (Wyon); — Brechin, Smith & Wilson's Tokens (Willets); — Cambridge Tokens (Wyon) ; — Chelmsford, Clachar& Co's Tokens (Wyon); — Chester Tokens; — Chichester, Dally's Tokens (Wyon); — Coalbrook Dale Co's Tokens (Wyon); — Colchester, C. Heath's Tokens (Wyon); — Cambridge, J. Burleigh's Tokens (Hancock); — Dundee Tokens (for A. Mollison, T. Webster J, A. Swap & Co, J. Pilmer, J. Wright, &c., and engraved by — Wyon and Willets); Edinburgh Tokens (for Anderson & C°, Wright, Archibald, H. Harrison, engr. by Wyon); — Elmsthorpe, R. Fowke's Token (Hancock); — Emsworth, J. Stride's Tokens, (Wyon); — Forfar, J. Steele's Tokens (Willets); — Gloucester Tokens (Wyon); — Haverhill, J. Fincham's Token (Wyon) ; — Huddersfield Tokens (Wyon) ; — Ipswich, R. Manning's Token (Wyon) and Conder's Token (Wyon) ; — Leek Tokens (Wyon) ; — Leighton, Chambers & Co's Tokens (Wyon); — London, Carter's Token (Willets); J. Chine's Token (Wyon); Moore, and Neeton Tokens (Wyon); Newgate Token (Wyon); Batley's Token (Wyon); H. Young's Token (Wyon); Essex Tokens (Wyon) ; — Lowhall Token (Wyon) ; — Lichfield, R. Wright's Token (Hancock) ; — London, Stag & Slough, Britannia Tokens (Willets) ; — Macclesfield Tokens; — Montrose, A. Nicol's Token (Willets); — New-castle, Mather's Tokens (Wyon); — Newent, J. More's Token (Wyon); — Norfolk, N. Bolingbroke's Tokens (Wyon) ; — Norwich, J. Harvey's Tokens (Wyon) ; — Bullen & Martin's Token (Wyon); — J. Rock, R. Campin, R. Bacon, Dinmore & Son, Hardingham Tokens (engr. by Wyon and Willets); — Perth, J. Ferrier's Tokens (Willets) ; — Portsea, G. E. Sargeant's Token (Wyon); — Salmon' s Token (Willets) ; — Portsmouth, T. Sharp's Token (Wyon); — Rochdale, J. Kershaw's Token (Wyon); — Salisbury, J. & T. Sharp's Tokens (Wyon); — South Shields Token (Wyon); — Spalding, T. Jenning's Tokens (Wyon); — Stafford, Horton & Co's Token (Willets); — Stockton, Kington Token (Wyon) ; — Sudbury, Goldsmith & Son's Token (Wyon) ;— Swansea Tokens (Wyon); — Tamworth, Rev. F. Blick's Token (Wyon); John Harding's Token (Hancock); — Wainfleet, Wright & Palmer's Token (Wyon) ;— Adam Smith's, Penny of Scotland (Wyon; illustrated); — York, James Carlisle's Tokens (Wyon); — Poole, Shilling, 1812; — Sixpence, 1812; — Hoxne, Twopence, 1798; — Dublin, AR. Shilling, 1804 (3 var.), and others : Blackfriars Bridge, Penny, 1797; — London Bridge; — Westminster Bridge; — Bridge Gate; — Greenwich Hospital ; — Guy's Hospital ; — St. Thomas's Hospital Penny Tokens, &c. Amongst the medals which bear Kempson's signature we find : George III. preserved from assassination, 1800; — Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, 1757-1844; — State of England, 1803 (signed K & K, Kempson &Kindon); — Death of the Duke of Bedford, 1802 (K & K); — Peace of Amiens concluded, 1802 (K & K); — Adam, First Viscount Duncan, of Camperdown, 1731-1804; — Engagement off Camperdown, 1797 (P. K. ; obv. illustrated); — General Hospital, Birmingham (In Boston Coll); — St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Gloucester; — Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820 ; — Count Bartolomeo Bergami, 1820; — Another, 1798 R. Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden (P. K. FEC.) ; — Opposition to the Union with Ireland, 1800 (STK. BY P. K.) ; — Alexander Hood, First Viscount Bridport, K.B. 1727-1814 ; —defeat of the French off Port l'Orient, 1795 (P. K.) ; — Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, 1707- 1791 ; Memorial, 1791 (K. & K.) ; — Masonic Medal struck in 1802 on the occasion ofthe union of the Two Rites ; — Sir Henry Trollope ; — Engagement oft Helvoetsluys, 16 July 1796; — Poole, Sixpence, 1812 ; — Hoxne, Two Pence, 1798 (by Wyon) ; — Shilling Tokens of Dublin, issued by the Irish Bullion Co, &c. Most of these medals were engraved by J. G. Hancock. Bibliography. — Pye, op. cit. — Atkins, op. cit. — H. A. Grueber English Personal Medals, 1887-1892. — W. J. Davis, Warwickshire Token Coinage. — Marvin, Masonic Medals, 1880. — Hennin, Histoire numismatique de la Révolution francaise. — W. J. Davis, Nineteenth Century Token Coinage, 1904.)
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
JONES, JOHN
JONES, JOHN (Brit.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, who died at Dublin, circa 1880. " He would deserve slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals trom Mossop's designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is reported to have come from Liverpool, and commenced his career by pulling the rope for Mossop's Coining press. At one period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his earnings ". The followin...
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JONES, JOHN (Brit.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, who died at Dublin, circa 1880. " He would deserve slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals trom Mossop's designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is reported to have come from Liverpool, and commenced his career by pulling the rope for Mossop's Coining press. At one period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his earnings ". The followin...
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JONGHELINCK, JACQUES
JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some ...
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JONGHELINCK, JACQUES (Belg.). Medallist, Seal-engraver, Sculptor and Caster of bronze statues, born at Antwerp, 21. October 1530, died there, 31. May 1606. As early as 1556, he was entrusted with the cutting of seals for various chanceries of Philip II. 's government and, in 1559, he executed the monument erected at Bruges to the memory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He is also the author of a colossal statue of the Duke of Alva in the centre of Antwerp citadel, which was destroyed some ...
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JONS
JONS (Brit.). Forger of coins, mentioned by Burns (The Coinage of Scotland, 1887). " About the year 1860 a watchmaker named Jons, residing in Dunfermline, contrived to obtain impressions of early Scottish coins, both in silver and gold, and executed dies in imitation of these pieces. Some of the forgeries thus fabricated, more particularly those of the portrait Testoons and Half-testoons of any one familiar with the genuine coins... Fortunately, like most other fabricators of old coins, Jons was...
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JONS (Brit.). Forger of coins, mentioned by Burns (The Coinage of Scotland, 1887). " About the year 1860 a watchmaker named Jons, residing in Dunfermline, contrived to obtain impressions of early Scottish coins, both in silver and gold, and executed dies in imitation of these pieces. Some of the forgeries thus fabricated, more particularly those of the portrait Testoons and Half-testoons of any one familiar with the genuine coins... Fortunately, like most other fabricators of old coins, Jons was...
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JORDEN, JOHN STUBBS
JORDEN, JOHN STUBBS (Brit.). A Birmingham Die-sinker of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. He cut dies for various Penny, Halfpenny and Farthing Tokens: 1795, Glamorgan Halfpennies; — Lichfield, ID and 1/2D, 1797-1800; — London (Meymott & Son) Halfpennies, 1795 ; — London (Presbury &C°) Halfpennies, 1795; - Newton, Halfpennies, 1796, &c. He also executed some medals, as for instance, that of the Birmingham " Loyal Associations", 1798. Bibliography. — Pye, op. cit....
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JORDEN, JOHN STUBBS (Brit.). A Birmingham Die-sinker of the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. He cut dies for various Penny, Halfpenny and Farthing Tokens: 1795, Glamorgan Halfpennies; — Lichfield, ID and 1/2D, 1797-1800; — London (Meymott & Son) Halfpennies, 1795 ; — London (Presbury &C°) Halfpennies, 1795; - Newton, Halfpennies, 1796, &c. He also executed some medals, as for instance, that of the Birmingham " Loyal Associations", 1798. Bibliography. — Pye, op. cit....
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