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Vestner learned die engraving from the medalist Suhl. He worked in Chur, Berlin, and Weimar before moving to Nuremberg in 1705. In 1720 he became engraver to the Episcopal See of Wuerzburg, in 1732 court medalist to the elector of Bavaria. He was assisted by his son from 1726. See Forrer 6, pp. 252-57; Thieme-Becker 34, p. 313. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976