KENNING, GEORGE (Brit.). A London Masonic Jeweller and Publisher, who has issued a number of Masonic medals, some of which commemorate the Installation of the Prince of Wales (now Edward VII.) as Grand Master, 1875, and others : Medal of the Strong Man Lodge " ; — Centenary Medals (sev. var.) " elaborate and excellent " ; — Railway Medals, &c. Bibliography. — Marvin, Masonic Medals, 1880. —Rev. A. F. A. Woodford, Kenning' s Masonic Cyclopaedia, London, 1878.
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
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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JORGUM & TREFZ
JORGUM & TREFZ (Germ.). Die-sinking establishment at Frankfort- on-Main. They edited and struck a commemorative medal of the Bernese Cantonal Rifle Meeting at St.-Imier, 1900, and various other Prize-medals; — Neuchâtel Cantonal Rifle Meeting at Fleurier, 1902 ; — Portrait-medal of Goethe, 1899 ; — Dr Heinrich Hoffmann of Frankfort-on-M. ; — Bernese Cantonal Choral Festival, 1902; — Bernese Cantonal Rifle Meeting at Bienne, 1903; — Emperor William Monument inaugurated at Frankfort-on-M., 1896; ...
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JORGUM & TREFZ (Germ.). Die-sinking establishment at Frankfort- on-Main. They edited and struck a commemorative medal of the Bernese Cantonal Rifle Meeting at St.-Imier, 1900, and various other Prize-medals; — Neuchâtel Cantonal Rifle Meeting at Fleurier, 1902 ; — Portrait-medal of Goethe, 1899 ; — Dr Heinrich Hoffmann of Frankfort-on-M. ; — Bernese Cantonal Choral Festival, 1902; — Bernese Cantonal Rifle Meeting at Bienne, 1903; — Emperor William Monument inaugurated at Frankfort-on-M., 1896; ...
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JOSSE, L.
JOSSE, L. (French). Goldsmith of the early part of the eighteenth century. M. Guiffrey ascribes to him a medal of Louis XIV., signed L, I, for which he was paid the sum of 400 livres on December 31, 1716. The name reminds one of Moliére's : Vous étes orfévre, M. Josse? As M. Mazerolle does not mention Josse in his recent work on French Medallists, it is possible that Guiffrey has wrongly interpreted the initials L. J. which he has noticed on the medal in question. Bibliography. — J. J. Guiffrey,...
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JOSSE, L. (French). Goldsmith of the early part of the eighteenth century. M. Guiffrey ascribes to him a medal of Louis XIV., signed L, I, for which he was paid the sum of 400 livres on December 31, 1716. The name reminds one of Moliére's : Vous étes orfévre, M. Josse? As M. Mazerolle does not mention Josse in his recent work on French Medallists, it is possible that Guiffrey has wrongly interpreted the initials L. J. which he has noticed on the medal in question. Bibliography. — J. J. Guiffrey,...
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