This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...Collection, has been pronounced by King to be a paste, and not a jacinth, undoubtedly antique, and not the work of Natter, as Kohler suspects it. Dr Brunn considers the work of little merit, and although he had not seen it, was inclined to doubt its genuineness. Dr Furtwangler pronounces this gem, and the agate ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...Collection, has been pronounced by King to be a paste, and not a jacinth, undoubtedly antique, and not the work of Natter, as Kohler suspects it. Dr Brunn considers the work of little merit, and although he had not seen it, was inclined to doubt its genuineness. Dr Furtwangler pronounces this gem, and the agate representing the Rape of the Palladium, in the Berlin Museum, antique. G. O. Vide GIACOMO OZEGNI. Die-sinker at Turin, 1622-1625. GOZ. Vide JOHANN SAMUEL GOTZINGER, born in 1734, f 1791. Coin-engraver at Ansbach. G. O. H. Vide GOTTFRIED OTTO MEYER. Mint-master at Herborn, 1681-1682. Bibliography.--Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. cit. GOBEL, GEBRUDER (Germ.). Mint-contractors at Danzig. Between 1578 and 1585 this firm struck Denarii, Schillings, Groschen, Dreigroschers, Ducats and some gold coins of higher denominations (5 and 10 Ducats), all, which, with the exception of the Denarii, bear the annulet, which was the Mint-mark of the Brothers Gobel. Bibliography.--Kirmis, Handbuch der Polnischen Munkunde, Posen, 1892, p. 69. GOBELET, JEAN (Belg.). Mint-master at Ghent, circa 1430. On a commission, given under the seal of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 27th October, 1430, he is named: Janne Gobelet, muntmeester van Brabant. Bibliography.--Revue de la num. beige, 1842, p. 311; 1851, p. 144. GOBERT DE SAINT-QUENTIN (French). Mint-master at S1 Quentin, 1436-1439. GOBRECHT, CHRISTIAN (Amer.). Coin-engraver at the Philadelphia Mint, from December 21, 1840, until his death, July 23, 1844. He was born in Hanover, York Co., Pa., December 23, 1785; went to Philadelphia in 1811, where he became an engraver of bank notes, seals, calico-printers' rolls, bookbinders' dies, &c. In 1836 he was appointed assistant to Mr Kneass, Engraver at the U.S.A. ...
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