Beaux Eau Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Branded, labelled, repaired, who's got a guess on this one!?! http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-MATHIAS-HORNST...1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy_Gallo Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 ViewItem">Maze of Labels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANFIO Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Repair labels are commom. Even Stradivari put some "correto da me" in some instruments, as pointed out in some books. I love old wathces (pocket) and they bear many inscription of past repairers too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Darnton Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Not too esoteric, I don't think. It's a Salzar (it does have a nice brand, after all), which is essentially a German factory violin (which is not a Salzard, with a "d") sold by the guy in Chicago in 1886, probably new, and misattributed to Hornsteiner (which it doesn't look a bit like, in my opinion, being a Strad model, contrary to M Hornsteiner's traditional very German model), whose name appears nowhere on the instrument (I wonder how the guy who wrote the appraisal missed the Salzar brand?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckers Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 The wood of the back ,the varnish and the model looks to me like a cheaper mirecourt violin made ca. 1840-1850. These violins have sometimes the Salzar brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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