Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1685, the 'MacKenzie, Castelbarco'

Violin: 40756

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Bearing its original label, "Antonis Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1685."

Back: One-piece cut on the slab

Top: of prominent grain

Scroll: plain

Ribs: of wood of faint curl

Varnish: Golden-brown

Length of back: 35.6 cm

Upper bouts: 16.2 cm

Lower bouts: 20.3 cm

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Provenance

until 1862	Count Cesare Pompeo Castelbarco
in 1862	Sold by Puttick & Simpson
from 1862	Alfredo Piatti
until 1882	W. E. Hill & Sons
...	...
from 1882 and in 1902	Lewis Mackenzie
until 1908	W. E. Hill & Sons
from 1908 and in 1909	R. Humphrey Haslam
...	...
from 1920	Hamma & Co.
1929-1949	Nathan E. Posner
1949-1954	Raymond Cerf
in 1954	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
1954-1960	Dr David Young
in 1960	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
1960-1976	Dr. Frederick Apfelbaum
in 1976	Sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet
1981-2001	Elsie McKenzie Taylor Lard
from 2001	Current owner

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Certificate: Jacques Français, New York, NY (1976)
Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (1960)
Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1908) States the instrument is from 1685, not 1687 as Hills had written in the first edition of their book.

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Antonio Stradivari: His Life & Work (1644-1737), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902
Fort Worth Symphony Acquires Second Stradivari Violin | FrontRow
How Many Strads? (1999 edition), Doring, Bein & Fushi, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1999 (illustrated)
Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Hamma & Co., Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven (illustrated)
Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
Private Archives - 10746
Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, New York (illustrated)
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
The Strad, March, 1982, Daniel Draley, London (illustrated)
Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)