Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Milan, 1700
Violin: 44625
Labeled, "Carlo Giuseppe Testore in Con / trada larga di Milano al / segno dell aquilla 1700."
Back: Two-piece, rather plain, marked by a faint curl; unpurfled with two lightly incised lines taking the place of the usual inlay
Scroll: plainer
Ribs: of wood similar to back
Varnish: Dark red-brown
Length of back: 35.5 cm
Upper bouts: 16.6 cm
Middle bouts: 11.1 cm
Lower bouts: 20.5 cm
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Provenance
in 1970 | Theodore Marchetti |
until 1970 | Aba Bershadsky |
1970-1972 | Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
from 1972 | Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
- Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London
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References
- The Strad, February, 1970, London (illustrated)
- Private Archives - 10746
- Private Archives - 10842
- Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XIV, No. 3, Philip J. Kass, The Queens College Press, Flushing, NY (illustrated)