1715 - Violin "Rode - Duke of Cambridge"

Back of one piece of curly maple with narrow curl descendant to the right. Orange varnish.

Date and Place: 1715, Cremona
Label: Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1715 (original)
Length of body: 35.9 cm
Width, upper bouts: 17 cm
Width, center bouts: 11.4 cm
Width, lower bouts: 21.6 cm
Position: Japan: NPO Yellow Angel
Certificates: W. E. Hill & Sons, London, July 7, 1899; Emil Herrmann, Berlin, New York, Easton, September 24, 1946
Players: Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode; Roderick White 1911/37; Oscar Shumsky 1946/93; Ryu Goto 2005
Provenance: Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode 1824; Duke of Cambridge; W.E. Hill & Sons 1899; Stanislav Hanfblum (St. Petersburg) 1899; Jean de Shimkewitch (St. Petersburg) 1911; Roderick White 1911/37; Oscar Shumsky 1946/75; Eric & Noel Shumsky 2004; NPO Yellow Angel (J) 2005
Bibliography specifies: Constant 1893; Doring 1945; Jalovec 1963 (II); Goodkind 1972; S. a. 1975 (V); Wasinski 1975; Orcutt 1977; Pollens 2010