B
IEAN B
TIVET
(JEAN B. TIVET)
Iean B Tivet, Jean Baptiste Tivet, arms manufacturer at St Etienne in about 1762. Son of Pierre, arms manufacturer and Francoise Vouta. Close relations to the "Famille Noir". (*Jean Jacques Buigné, Le "QUI EST QUI " de l'arme en France - de 1350 à 1970", Editions du Portail.)
Map of where specimens of
IEAN
B TIVET
blades were found
1. Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan ( 1715-1763)
2. Rock Island, Wisconsin, United States (1600s to the 1750s)
3. Fort St.Joseph, Niles, Michigan, United States (1691-1760)
4. Guebert site, Randolph County, Illinois, United States (1719-1765)
References and specimens for IEAN
B
TIVET
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| Name : clasp knife | Blade type : type 1 |
| Blade length (cm) : 12.5 | Blade width (cm) : 2.2 |
| Blade thickness (mm) : 1 | Length from heel to pin (cm) : 1 |
| Site name or provenance: Mackinac County, Michigan |
Approx. date of site : 1671-1760 French presence in Mackinac County spawned over 90 years from 1671 to 1760) ( Father Marquette established a Jesuit mission in 1671 in St. Ignace - In 1761 the French relinquished Fort Michilimackinac to the British who had assumed control of Canada as a result of their victory in the French and Indian War.) |
| Approx. date of discovery : 2003 |
Hallmark : No Hallmark
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Markings :
IEAN
TIVET |
Current collection : KG collection, Canada |
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| Name : clasp knife | Blade type : type 1 |
| Blade length (cm) : 11 | Blade width (cm) : 1.9 |
| Blade thickness (mm) : 2 | Length from heel to pin (cm) : 0.8 |
| Site name or provenance: Mackinac County, Michigan | Approx. date of site : 1671-1760 |
| Approx. date of discovery : 2003 |
Hallmark :
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Markings :
IEAN
TIVET |
Current collection : KG collection, Canada |
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| Name : clasp knife | Blade type : type 1 |
| Blade length (cm) : | Blade width (cm) : |
| Blade thickness (mm) : | Length from heel to pin (cm) : |
| Site name or provenance: Mackinac County, Michigan | Approx. date of site : 1671-1760 |
| Approx. date of discovery : 2004 |
Hallmark :
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Markings :
IEAN
TIVET |
Current collection : KG collection, Canada |
| Name : clasp knife | Blade type : type 1 |
| Site name or provenance: Fort St.Joseph, Niles, Michigan | Approx. date of site : 1691-1760 |
| Approx. date of discovery : 1949 |
Reference : 5. Hulse, Charles, A., An
archeological evaluation of Fort St.Joseph : An eighteenth century military
post and settlement in Berrien county, Michigan, 1977.
(page 300)
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Markings :
IEAN.B IVE_ Notes : maker's mark #8 1 specimen This mark is probably that of Iean B. Tivet. A similar marked example is present at the Guebert site
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Current collection : Fort St Joseph Museum |
| Name : clasp knife | Blade type : type 1 (pointed clasp knives) |
| Site name or provenance: Rock Island, Wisconsin | Approx. date of site : 1600s to the 1750s |
| Approx. date of discovery : 1969 -1974 |
Reference : Ronald J. Mason, Rock Island,
Historical Indian Archaology in the Northern Lake Michigan Basin, Kent
State University Press. (page 200)
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Markings :
IEAN .B above ?IVET. THe last name is doubtless TIVET, according to a similar knife from Kaskakia, Randolf County, Illinois (see reference below)
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Current collection : LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY (Anthropology Departement) |
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| Name : clasp knife | Blade type : type 1 |
| Site name or provenance: Guebert site, Randolph County, Illinois | Approx. date of site : 1719-1765 |
| Approx. date of discovery : 1972 |
Reference :
Good, Mary Elizabeth, Guebert
site: An 18th century, historic Kaskaskia Indian village (Randolph County,
Illinois). (page 158,159) |
| Current collection : The Illinois State Museum |
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Markings :
Figure 35
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