BY NICOLAS DELIONS (FL. 1733-1768), MARKED, PARIS, 1757/1758, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762, LATER STRUCK WITH A DUTCH IMPORT MARK FOR GOLD 1806-1810

Nicolas Delions was apprenticed in 1721, at the age of sixteen, to Antoine Denis Viaucourt, later his sponsor in 1736. He is recorded as working in the cour Lamoignon from 1748-1759, the same year that he sponsored his own son Nicolas-Augustin. Delions senior acted as warden to the company in 1758 and 1759 retiring in 1768. He died in 1777 and was buried at St Barthélemy.