Melchior Faust, born in Gothenburg in 1734, was apprenticed to the master goldsmith Matthias Grahl in his home city in 1751. He qualified as a journeyman in 1757 and as a master in 1767, for which he made a plat de ménage as his masterpiece. He married Anna Catharina, daughter of the master goldsmith Olof Fernlöf (active 1720–1766), and took over his father-in law’s workshop. A member of the Guild council in 1775, he resigned in 1812 due to old age and illness; he died in 1819.

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