Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1737, the 'Lord Norton'

Violin: 41574

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Illustrated in The Strad July 1987 and Oct. 1998.

How Many Strads?, Doring, Bein & Fushi, Doring, Bein & Fushi, How Many Strads? (1999 edition), Chicago

"...considered by many experts. . . . to be even more deserving of the recognition as Stradivari's last masterpiece [ than the Le Chant du Cygne]."

A Thousand Mornings of Music, Arnold Gingrich, A Thousand Mornings of Music, New York

Provenance

until 1872	Joseph Gillott
in 1872	Sold by Christie's
from 1872	George Hart
in 1885	E. Adderley
until 1901	Charles Adderley
from 1901	Charles Fletcher
in 1908	W. A. Darbishire
from 1908	Marie Molto
from 1929	Nathan E. Posner
in 1931	Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
in c. 1931	Sold by Emil Herrmann, New York
in 1931	Alfred O. Corbin
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in 1937	Samuel S. Fels
until 1939	Emil Herrmann, New York
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from 1939 and in 1945	Daniel Karpilowsky
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in 1975	Charles Libove
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in 1987	Charles Libove
1957-1965	Henry Hottinger
from 1965	Current owner

Iso Briselli

36 Famous Italian Violins, Alex Wasinski, Herman Gordon, New York (illustrated)
A Thousand Mornings of Music, Arnold Gingrich, Crown Publishers, New York (illustrated)
The Strad, July, 1987, R. D. Lawrence, London (illustrated)
Henry Hottinger Collection (illustrated)
How Many Strads? (1999 edition), Doring, Bein & Fushi, Bein & Fushi, Chicago, 1999 (illustrated)
Violins & Violinists, March-April, 1943, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
Joseph Gillott, Cozio Carteggio feature, John Dilworth, Feb 2020
L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Comitato Stradivariano, Cremona (illustrated)
Stradivari, Stewart Pollens, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010 (illustrated)
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Box 43 (illustrated)
The Stradivari Memorial (1977), William Dana Orcutt, Da Capo Press, New York (illustrated)
Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)
The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, George Hart, Dulau & Co., London (illustrated)