1718 - Violin "Benno Walter - Szigeti"

Back of one piece of curly maple with irregular medium curl, descending to the left.

Date and Place: 1718, Cremona
Label: Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1718 (original)
Length of body: 35.2 cm
Width, upper bouts: 16.5 cm
Width, center bouts: 10.7 cm
Width, lower bouts: 20.5 cm
Certificates: Oswald A. Schilbach, New York; Letter by Oswald A. Schilbach, New York, June 11, 1931; Emil Herrmann, Berlin, New York, Easton, May 25, 1944; Rembert Wurlitzer, Inc., New York, December 12, 1957
Provenance: Prince of Donaueschingen; Anton Bohrer; Count Ludwig von Eichthal (Munich); Benno Walther 1890; W.E. Hill & Sons 1911; Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart) 1911; Ernst Kessler (Berlin); Bernard Sinsheimer 1898; Oswald Schilbach 1898; Miss A. Harris (Albany) 1898/1924; Oswald Schilbach 1924; Emil Herrmann 1927; Oswald Schilbach 1927; Herbert Limberg; Deszo Szigeti 1943; Herbert Brandwig (Portland) 1957; Bein & Fushi
Bibliography specifies: Herrmann 1927; Doring 1940 (V); Doring 1944 (IV); Doring 1945; Goodkind 1972; Yokoyama 1984; Hamma 1993