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Hi I’m new! I want to buy a new violin. I don’t think this is an actual Maggini but a 19th century copy but as I’m new to this I would like your expert opinions. I wanted to know how much this Violin could be worth?
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I understand that a real Maggini (Giovanni Paolo Maggini (1580 - 1632)) scroll has less than a 'regular' number of turns to the scroll. This is called 1.5 turns. I understand that at some point there was a misreading of the description of a Maggini scroll which resulted in copies having more than a 'regular' number of turns to the scroll. This is called 4 turns? What I can't seem to find is when this happened? 1800s? Who was making the copies? The Germans? And how did we come to think that a real Maggini had the incorrect scroll? Too few photos of real ones available to look at in the pre-www era? And by 'we' I mean the general violin-fan base...not the experts (well, at least I'd hope they'd know )... The pictures are of a Maggini scroll, a 'fake' Maggini scroll...and a copy of the Plowden scroll for comparison.
