Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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Benedetti Brin, and Re Umberto; Armoured Cruisers Amalfi,
Ferruccio, Garibaldi, Varese, Vettor Pisani, Marco Polo; Protected
Cruisers (8); Destroyers (I3); Submarines ( 5); Patrol boats (4).
Mr. R.J. Eidlitz brings to my notice a medal of Giuseppe
Sacconi, 905; iE 60 mill., in his collection, and adds a note, that
the signatures of A. Cappucio, E. Fare, F. Sassone and A. Taddio
appear on medals struck at S. Johnson's establishment.
This firm issued in I9I4 under the title La Conquista della Libia
nelle Medaglie MCMXI-MCMXIV a booklet describing not only all
the numerous medals issued by them to commemorate the conquest
of Tripoli, but the colonial wars of Venice in the eighteenth
century.
JOINDY, FRANCOIS JOSEPH (B.D.M., Vol III, p. 8r). By this
Medallist is a Medal of the Societe d'oceanographie du Golfe de
Gascogne, created under the patronage of the Prince of Monaco.
JOLY, ANTOINE (French). Mint-master at Narbonne, I591-94:
letter I.
JOLY, CHARLES PAUL RENE (French). Contemporary Sculptor and
Medallist, born at Courbevoie (Seine); pupil of Claudius Marioton
and Amedde Delattre. At the Paris Salon, 1912, he exhibited a
Portrait-plaquette in bronze of Mme Joly.
JONES, JOHN (B.D.M., Vol. III, p. 82). Born about 1798, died
about I875. From Strickland's Dictionary of Irish Artists, I, p. 556,
we cull the following details: "He commenced his career in a
subordinate capacity in the establishment of the younger Mossop,
in Dublin, and there learned his art. After Mossop's death in [827
he set up for himself, and from I830 to 1838 was established at
78 Dame Street as a Die-sinker and Medallist. In I839 and I840 he
was in America where he made some money; and returning to
Dublin he resumed his former business, which he carried on at 45
Marlborough St. from I84I to I866, and afterwards until 1875 at
37 Summer Hill. Clever artist though he was he met with but
little encouragement. Writing in I843 the Rev. R. Dawson says:
"His tools and presses are now rusting in his workshop, and a
talented professional native educated in an excellent school has the
mortification of finding himself neglected and English artists
employed to record Irish events. " (Transactions of R.I. Academy,
Vol. XIX, I843). "Besides executing several medals of merit,
notably that for the Royal Agricultural Society, Jones struck some
from Mossop's design and dies."
A full description of Jones's medals will be found in the Kilkenny
Archaeological Society's Journal, Vol. XVIII, p. 320. One I have