The Birmingham Mint Limited
Foundation date: 1819
Active: 1819 - 1931
Function: Medallists, coin manufacturers
Policy: The company is listed in Forrer as holding 'special appointments as coiners to the British, French, Italian, Russian, and numerous other Governments, and as manufacturers of metal or blanks and minting machinery; and for all these countries respectively, it has been entrusted from time to time with large contracts for the coinage of various metals.' Also listed as manufacturers of other types of metal production including stove fittings, stamped ornaments, metallic address labels, metal checks, etc. [See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 447]
Grants
Purpose: prize
Beneficiaries: students
Locations
Business located at Icknield Street Birmingham | View on map
1921 (Presumed) - 1931 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Sponsored Special Prize (Municipal School of Art, Birmingham), 1908-1911
1908 - 1911
Institutional and Business Connections
Collaborated with Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1909 - 1911
Associated People
Employed Emil Fuchs
Employed by the Mint. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 454, no dates are given.
Employed George James Frampton
Employed by the Mint. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 454, no dates are given.
Employed Frank Bowcher
Employed by the Mint. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 454, no dates are given.
Employees included John Pinches Snr
Pinches worked for the Birmingham Mint. See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 548, no dates are given.
Employees included John Harvey Pinches
Forrer states that the artist did 'contract work' for the Mint: see Forrer vol. 4, (1909), p. 548, no dates are given.
Employees included Thomas Wells Ingram
1829 (Circa) - 1865 (Circa)
Forrer states that the artist was employed at the Soho Mint, Birmingham between these dates. See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), pp. 26-27.
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed under Medallists 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, Volume II, 1904 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1819
Listed as coin manufacturers from its foundation in 1819. Forrer cites 'Exract from the Birmingham Mint's Guide' (no date is given). See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 447.
Listed under Medallists Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, 1911 Kelly's Trades Directories
1911
Listed under Medallists Kelly's Birmingham Directory, Trades Section, 1921 Kelly's Trades Directories
1921
Listed under Medallists Kelly's Directory of Birmingham with its suburbs and Smethwick, 1931 Kelly's Trades Directories
1931
Sources
Kelly's Birmingham Directory, Trades Section, 1921 Kelly's Trades Directories
1921
p. 1092.
Kelly's Directory of Birmingham with its suburbs and Smethwick, 1931 Kelly's Trades Directories
1931
p. 1396.
Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, 1911 Kelly's Trades Directories
1911
p. 1008.
Citing this record
'The Birmingham Mint Limited', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib4_1206629617, accessed 01 Feb 2023]
