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1711 - Violin "Earl of Plymouth - Kreisler"

Back in two pieces of curly maple with narrow curl, glued in a herringbone pattern with apex at the top.

Date and Place: 1711, Cremona
Label: Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1711 (original)
Length of body: 35.5 cm
Width, upper bouts: 16.75 cm
Width, center bouts: 11 cm
Width, lower bouts: 20.8 cm
Position: Los Angeles (USA), Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchesta
Certificates: Letter by Rembert Wurlitzer, New York, November 30, 1945, to Miss Dorotha Powers
Players: Fritz Kreisler 1928/45
Historical notes: Discovered by Hill in 1928, he would never have played since 1750 (Wurlitzer, 1945).
Provenance: Earl of Plymouth; W.E. Hill & Sons 1928; Fritz Kreisler 1928/45; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1945/46; Dorothea Powers Percival (New York) 1946; Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. 1952; Henry Hottinger (New York) 1952/65; Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. 1965; Los Angeles Philharmonic 1965
Bibliography specifies: Doring 1945 (III); Doring 1946 (IV); S. a. 1948 (IV); Wurlitzer 1966; Campbell 1971; Goodkind 1972; Sacconi 1972; Sacconi 2000; Barabaschi 2010