IVST.CH

APELON

(IVST. CHAPELON or JUSTIN CHAPELON

We have tried to trace back this knife maker using "La coutellerie depuis l'origine jusqu'à nos jours,Pagé," XVIIIe (Tome 1)  by Camille Pagé.  

Vve Claude Chappelon (St.Étienne) p.93. 

"Nous trouvons dans un acte d'assemblée des maistres costeliers de St.Etienne du 29 juillet 1695, les noms suivants : Veuve Claude Chappelon

"We found in the registry of the knifemaker's guild for the town of St.Etienne from the 29th of July 1695, the following names: Widow Claude Chappelon"

 

References and specimens for Justin Chapelon

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)
Markings :

Hulse, Charles, A., An archeological evaluation of Fort St.Joseph : An eighteenth century military post and settlement in Berrien county, Michigan, 1977. (page 300)

Current collection : Fort St Joseph Museum

 

 

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

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 : 2004 Hallmark : No Hallmark

 
Markings :

IVST.CH

APELON

 Current collection : KG collection, Canada

 

Figure 35a
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  

 
Markings :

Figure 35

 

 

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

Current collection : LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY (Anthropology Departement)

 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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