1708 - Violin "Empress Caterina of Russia - Salzard"

Back of one piece of curly maple with narrow curl descendant to the left.

Date and Place: 1708, Cremona
Label: Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1708 (original)
Length of body: 35.6 cm
Width, upper bouts: 16.7 cm
Width, center bouts: 10.75 cm
Width, lower bouts: 20.7 cm
Certificates: Letter by Silvestre & Maucotel, Paris, May 12, 1917; Caressa & Français, Paris, July 7, 1921; Pierre Vidoudez, Geneva, July 5, 1946; Rembert Wurlitzer, Inc., New York, July 19, 1951; William Moennig & Son, Philadelphia
Scientific tests: Dendrochronology of the soundboard, performed by Peter Ratcliff, London, which determined the dating of the growth rings on the treble side to 1700 and on the bass side to 1702
Provenance: Czarina Elizabeth Petrovna; Empress Caterina of Russia; Gribersky; Ernest-Andre Salzard; M. M. Zohernoff; Victor Michailavich Freloff; Nicholas Frederich Kracht; Stothbert; Silvestre & Maucotel (Paris) 1917; José de Ygartua (Bilboa) 1917; Prosper Maurel (Paris) 1917; Caressa & Français (Paris) 1921; Professor Leo Guetta (Venice) 1921/37; Guetta Family 1951; William Moennig & Son (Philadelphia) 1952; Dr. J. Gershon-Cohen 1953/71; Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod 1971/82; Dietmar Machold 1982; Anonymous 1982
Exhibitions: 1937, Cremona: Mostra di Liuteria Antica Cremonese
Bibliography specifies: S. a. 1937; AA. VV. 1938; Doring 1945; Doring 1950 (III); Doring 1951 (VIII); Henley 1961; Applebaum 1973; Axelrod 2002; Barabaschi 2010
Comments: Passed by Tarisio Auction's, New York, Juin 2024