1734 - Violin "Ames"

Back of one piece of curly maple with a faint partial curl descendant to the left, with evident veins vertical. Rich red varnish.

  • 1734, Cremona
  • Original
  • 35.8 cm
  • 16.8 cm
  • 11.3 cm
  • 20.9 cm
  • Stolen in 1980 in the office of the Director of Longy Scool of Music in Cambridge (USA), at the recital by Roman Totemnberg for the withdrawal of Wolfe Wolfinsohn (Forrest, 1987), it was recovered by the FBI in June 2015 and returned to the descendants of the owner.
  • Ernst Kessler, Berlin, July 20, 1916; W. E. Hill & Sons, London, January 21, 1936
  • Irving Lashinsky 1937; Ramon Totenberg 1961
  • Baron de Tremont (Paris) 1870; Charles Hermann (Paris) 1870/79; Gand & Bernardel, Freres (Paris) 1879; C. G. Meier (London) 1879/85; George Hart 1885; George Ames 1885; George Acland 1886/93; W.E. Hill & Sons 1893; Pickering Phipps 1893; W.E. Hill & Sons 1905; Baron von Donop (Detmold / Baden-Baden) 1905; Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart); Ernst Kessler (Berlin) 1916; Emil Herrmann 1924/25; Leslie W. Brown (Utica) 1925; Wurlitzer Collection; Roman Totenberg 1943/81; Heirs Totenberg 2015
  • Hart 1885; Puttick & Simpson 1893; Hill 1902; Herrmann 1927; Doring 1945; Henley 1961; Goodkind 1972; Orcutt 1977; Forrest 1987 (II); Gand 1994
creato:venerdì 21 marzo 2014
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017