Jacob Stainer, Absam, 1665

Viola: 40045

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Labeled, "Jacobus Stainer in Absam / prope Oenipontum 1650."

Back: Two-piece, quarter-cut, with even narrow flaming

Top: One-piece, narrow-grained

Scroll: possibly not original

Varnish: Gold-brown

Length of back: 46.5 cm

Upper bouts: 22.5 cm

Middle bouts: 15.4 cm

Lower bouts: 27.3 cm

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Notes:

"This viola was restored to its original condition c.1900 by Hammig."

The History of the Viola, Volume 2, Maurice W. Riley, The History of the Viola, Volume II

Provenance

	Wilhelm Hermann Hammig
until 1897	W. E. Hill & Sons
...	...
in 1923	Richard Mendelsohn
	Wilhelm Hermann Hammig
in 1953 and until 1961	Hamma & Co.
...	...
1961-1984	Laurence C. Witten II
from 1984	Shrine to Music, National Music Museum, South Dakota

Dendrochronology report: Micha Beuting & Peter Klein (2003) Dating the youngest tree ring to from 1625.
Certificate: Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (1961)

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The Strad 1999 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)
Jacob Stainer "… kayserlicher diener und geigenmacher zu Absom", Rudolf Hopfner, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna (illustrated)
Jakob Stainer: Leben und Werk des Tiroler Meisters, Walter Senn & Karl Roy, Verlag E. Bochinsky, Frankfurt (illustrated)
Luthiers Library (illustrated)
Violins & Violinists, January-February, 1957, Max Möller & Son, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
The Strad, March, 2010, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)
Stainer viola; Shrine to Music Museum
The History of the Viola, Volume II, Maurice W. Riley (illustrated)