1642 - Violin
The top is of spruce of medium grain, copy made in the XX Century. The back is two-piece of maple of medium curl, almost horizontal and slightly descending to the left. The ribs are of wood similar to back. The scroll is original, of maple of medium curl, inserted in the later maple pegbox. The varnish is golden - brown.
- 1642, Cremona
- Nicolaus Amatus Cremonen. Hieronymi / Fil. ac Antonij Nepos Fecit. 1642
- 35.2 cm
- Letter by Jacques Français, New York, 8 October 1972: which states that the instrument is all original, but the top.
- Sotheby's 1979
| creato: | martedì 26 marzo 2013 |
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| modificato: | giovedì 23 marzo 2017 |