Joseph Moore
1817–92
Medallist and die-sinker. Based in Birmingham. Initially worked on the production of dies for commercial uses, mainly buttons. Partner in Allen and Moore, 1844. Began trading by himself as a die-sinker, 1856, producing numerous prize and commemorative medals. Founder and first president of the Midland Art Club. Cut the die for the Darwin Medal of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies, 1881.
Sources
Midland Naturalist 5 (1882): 159
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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