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| An engraver* and die-sinker*, Christian Gobrecht "served his apprenticeship under a clock-maker at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and for some years before 1811 worked in Baltimore as an engraver of clock faces and as a letter-engraver.
In 1811, he moved to Philadelphia where he found employment as a general and seal engraver and die-sinker. In 1816 he was with the engraving firm of Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co. In 1834, he was appointed assistant engraver at the U.S. Mint, and in 1840 he became head of the engraving department of the Mint.
He also executed a number of medals and invented some engraving tools.
He died July 23, 1844."
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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