MAYER, WILHELM & FRANTZ WILHELM or THE STUTTGARTER METALLWAREN FABRIK (Germ.). A Die-sinking Establishment founded in 1860 by Wilhelm Mayer, Sculptor and Engraver, and directed, since 1876, by him and his brother-in-law, Frantz Wilhelm. The name of the old firm, WILHELM MAYER METALLWAREN FABRIK, was changed into its present form in 1896. Wilhelm Mayer was born at Lauffen-on-the-Neckar in 1840 and studied at the Stuttgart School of Art sculpture and engraving. Frantz Wilhelm was born at Hanau-on-Main in 1846, and is an Engraver by trade. The firm was awarded a Gold Medal for an exhibit of Medals and Plaquettes at the Dresden " Kunstgewerbe-Ausstellung ", 1906. Amongst the best known productions of Mayer and Wilhelm one may mention the following : Portrait-medals. Conr. Bansa, 25 Sept. 1867-92 ; — Detective Inspector R. J. Child, of the City of London Police ; — Lui Theodor Stephanesen ; — G. Biacoianu ; — Prof. Virchow (2 var.); — Dr William Frederick Ludwig, of Tubingen, 1811 ; — Johannes Gutenberg, 1903; — Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1843-1894); — Augustus, Baron von der Heydt, Prussian Finance Minister ; — Emmanuel Kant, centenary medal; — Joh. Georg Adler; — Gutenberg, 5th centenary; — Prof. Dr Robert Koch; — Friedrich von Schiller (sev. var.); — Justus von Liebig; — Schiller and Goethe; — Leo XIII., Memorial; — Pius X., Accession (sev. var. and sizes) ; — Martin Luther (sev. var. 1883, 1889, 1898, &c.); — Ernst Moritz Arndt; — Henry Lysius and Georg Ellendt, of Koenigsberg ; — Dr Francisco Murtinho, 1858 ; — Fridtjof Nansen ; R. The " Fram " ; — Wolfgang Amad. Mozart ; — Richard Wagner ; — Ludwig van Beethoven (sev. var.); — Franz Liszt; — Dr jur. Carl Friedrich Rietsch; — Friedrich Alfred Krupp, † 1902 ; — Major Wissmann, Dr Emin Pascha and Dr C. Peters ; — Philipp Melanchthon, 4th centenary ; — The Schiller Monument; — Monument of Franz Abt; — Ludwig Uhland, centenary; — President Krüger ; — Sebastian Kneipp; — Major General Hector Macdonald, Memorial; — Labori and Dreyfus; — Esterhazy and Paty de Clam; R. Zola, Labori, and Dreyfus; — Carl Theodor Körner ; — Lord Roberts ; — President Krüger ; R. President Stein. Plaquettes : Schiller; — Goethe ; — Virchow; — J. E. Bennert; — Rich. Schmidt-Kabanis; — Mommsen; — Beethoven, Brahms, Joachim ; — Mozart, Schubert; — Liszt; — Wagner; — Bismarck; — Moltke ; — Luther; — Pius X. ; — Emperors William I. ; — William II. ; — Frederick ; — The Great Elector; — Bismarck Medals and Plaquettes (30 varieties of reverses, and several var. of heads; dates 1888, 1894, 1898, &c.); — Medals of Wurtemberg Rulers : William I.;— William II. ( commemorating various events, Exhibitions at Stuttgart, Inaugurations of monuments, &c.) ; — Queen Charlotte; — Charles and Queen Olga; — Queen Olga; — († 30. October 1892), &c. ; — Medals of Foreign Princes : Grand Duke Frederick of Baden, 1896 (sev. var.); — Queen Victoria of England (International Exhibition in London, 1893 and 1897); — King Charles and Queen of Roumania; — Milenial Commemoration F?tes of Budapest ;—Jubilee of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, 1898 ; — Emperor Charles IV. ; R. View of Carlsbad, 1901 (obv. illustrated); — King Albert of Saxony 50 years' Soldiers' Jubilee, 1893; — Another, 25th Anniversary of Reign, 1898 ; — King Albert and Duke George, of Saxony, 4th Centenary of Annaberg, 1896; — 25th Anniversary of the Kingdom of Italy with busts of Victor Emmanuel II. and Umberto I., 1895 ; — William III., King of the Netherlands, Exhibition at Amsterdam, 1883 ; — Prince Henry of Prussia, Exhibition at Königsberg, 1895 ; — Leopold II., King of the Belgians, Exhibition at Antwerp, 1885; — Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; R. " Preis Erfurt “, 1897; — Augustus, Baron von der Heydt, 1898; — Memorial Medal of King Albert of Saxony, 1902; — Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry, Colonial Exhibition ; — King Umberto of Italy; R. Peace, 29 July 1900; — Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, Exhibition at Philippopel, 1892 (sev. var.); — Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, Industrial Exhibition at Gotha, 1893 ; — Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, 1844-1894; — The Belgian Jubilee, 1830-1880, with busts of Leopold I. and II.; — Prince Henry XXVII. of Reuss ; — Nicholas II. and Alexandra. Resurrection of Christ; — Napoleon III., Emperor of the French; — Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Agricultural Show at Darmstadt, 1900 ; — Edward VII. and Alexandra, Coronation in London, 1902; — Philip, Count zu Ysenburg, Offenbach, 1899; — Khan Bahadur Rastomji Thanenala R. Ralambai Khurshedji Khan, 1842-1892 ; — Grand Duke of Luxemburg, 1891 ; — King George of Hanover. Duke Ernest Augustus of Cumberland; — Prince Albert Victor of Great Britain, 1889-1890; — Duke Frederick of Anhalt, 1896; — Grand Duke Frederick of Baden, Military manoeuvres of 1901; — Another, Jubilee Medal, 1832-1902; — Inauguration of the Emperor Joseph II., Statue at Winterberg, 1901 ; —Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, 1898 (sev. var.); — Death of King Albert of Saxony, † 19. June 1902; — Grand Duchess Louise of Baden ; — The Saxon Royal Pair, 8th Centenary of the House of Wetten, 1889 ; — Accession of King Victor Emmanuel III. of Italy, 29 July 1900; — Marriage of Queen Wilhelmina with Prince Henry of Mecklenburg, 1901 (sev. var.); — William Ernest and Caroline of Saxe- Weimar; — Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria; — Coronation of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina, at Moscow, 1896; — Nicholas II., Emperor of Russia; — 20th Anniversary of Carol I. of Rumania's reign, 1891 ; — Count Waldersee, Relief of Peking ; — Queen Victoria; R. Prince and Princess of Wales; — The Roumanian Royal Pair, 1900; — Prince Ludwig of Bavaria; — King Leopold of Belgium; and Breloques with portraits of Queen Wilhelmina; — King Albert of Saxony ; — Emperor Francis Joseph ; — King George of Saxony ; — and Grand Duke Frederick of Baden ; — Gedenkthaler on the Birth of Prince William of Hohenzollern, 1906; — 78th Congress of German Naturalists and Physicians at Stuttgart, September 1906.
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
MARQUART, J. B. C.
MARQUART, J. B. C. (Belg.). Son of the last; studied metallurgy under his father, and was sent by the government of the Netherlands to learn medal-engraving at the Vienna Mint. Returning after a few months' stay in Austria, he went to Paris where he resided for thirteen years. We then find him filling an official post in government mining works in Hungary, and in 1764, appointed Warden of the Brussels Mint. Pinchart describes a medal by him, probably executed in Austria, of the Archduke Joseph, ...
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MARQUART, J. B. C. (Belg.). Son of the last; studied metallurgy under his father, and was sent by the government of the Netherlands to learn medal-engraving at the Vienna Mint. Returning after a few months' stay in Austria, he went to Paris where he resided for thirteen years. We then find him filling an official post in government mining works in Hungary, and in 1764, appointed Warden of the Brussels Mint. Pinchart describes a medal by him, probably executed in Austria, of the Archduke Joseph, ...
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MARRIAN AND GAUSBY
MARRIAN AND GAUSBY (Brit.). Die-sinkers of Birmingham, during the early portion of Queen Victoria's reign. They issued a series of Pattern pieces, comprising : 10, 5, 2 and 1 Cents, 1846 in Al, AR. and ? (of which many restrikes exist); — One Centum, 1846, in tin, &c. All these patterns read : MARRIAN & GAUSBY. D. BIRM. beneath the head of the Queen, and the legend on R. is : SMITH ON DECIMAL CURRENCY 1846. Bibliography. — S. M. Spink, Catalogue of Mr. Montagu's Collection of Coins from George I...
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MARRIAN AND GAUSBY (Brit.). Die-sinkers of Birmingham, during the early portion of Queen Victoria's reign. They issued a series of Pattern pieces, comprising : 10, 5, 2 and 1 Cents, 1846 in Al, AR. and ? (of which many restrikes exist); — One Centum, 1846, in tin, &c. All these patterns read : MARRIAN & GAUSBY. D. BIRM. beneath the head of the Queen, and the legend on R. is : SMITH ON DECIMAL CURRENCY 1846. Bibliography. — S. M. Spink, Catalogue of Mr. Montagu's Collection of Coins from George I...
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MARSHOORN, GERARD
MARSHOORN, GERARD (GERRIT) (Dutch.). Medallist of Haarlem, first half of the eighteenth century. His signature is found on various medals, and he worked for the Hereditary Stadholder, Willem IV. The Portrait-pieces of Lorenz J. Coster, typographer of Haarlem (1740) are his best known productions, and I have seen by him also Portrait-medals of Prince Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, 1747, on his first Stadholderate; (sev. var.) — Commemorative medals of the Treaties of Peace of Münster and Aix-la- Cha...
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MARSHOORN, GERARD (GERRIT) (Dutch.). Medallist of Haarlem, first half of the eighteenth century. His signature is found on various medals, and he worked for the Hereditary Stadholder, Willem IV. The Portrait-pieces of Lorenz J. Coster, typographer of Haarlem (1740) are his best known productions, and I have seen by him also Portrait-medals of Prince Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, 1747, on his first Stadholderate; (sev. var.) — Commemorative medals of the Treaties of Peace of Münster and Aix-la- Cha...
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MARSCHALL, RUDOLPH FERDINAND
MARSCHALL, RUDOLPH FERDINAND (Austr.). Contemporary Medallist, born at Vienna on the 3rd of December 1873 ; studied at the School of Engraving under Professors Schwarz, Schulmeister, and Zapf. In 1891 he was awarded a First Prize (silver medal) by the Commercial and Industrial Institute of Lower- Austria ; then the bronze and silver medals of the Engravers' Association, for modelling, drawing and engraving. After an absence of some duration, during which Marshall visited the principal artistic c...
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MARSCHALL, RUDOLPH FERDINAND (Austr.). Contemporary Medallist, born at Vienna on the 3rd of December 1873 ; studied at the School of Engraving under Professors Schwarz, Schulmeister, and Zapf. In 1891 he was awarded a First Prize (silver medal) by the Commercial and Industrial Institute of Lower- Austria ; then the bronze and silver medals of the Engravers' Association, for modelling, drawing and engraving. After an absence of some duration, during which Marshall visited the principal artistic c...
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