George Duncan

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George Duncan was a pupil and successor to Walter Plain. He worked in Glasgow from 1875 at 21 Brunswick Street, which was previously the premises of Walter Plain, and later at 33 Queen Street. He won a gold medal at the London Inventions Exhibition ...Read More in 1885, surpassing the silver medal awarded to Bela Szepessy. In 1892, he emigrated to Canada. His disciplined work on Stradivari and Guarneri models featured arching that, like Plain's, had a distinct flatness to the center bouts, which rose rather abruptly from deeply sunk edges. He used a fine textured oil varnish of various tints, sometimes shaded and slightly 'distressed' to imitate age. No. 31. Made by George Duncan / Glasgow. Read Less

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