Definition

• Court Jeweler.  A private jewelry firm appointed by a sovereign as the official maker of the orders and decorations of the monarchy. Like any private medal maker they applied their own mark, called a jeweler’s mark, as a mintmark.
                                                                                                                         

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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