shsu Posted February 23, 2009 Report Posted February 23, 2009 The auction is over and I would like you, experts, to discuss this sale. Thanks. It looks to me anything but masterart. The varnish color, scroll, off-center end pin hole.... John Juzek Masterart
D.Fenestrate Posted February 23, 2009 Report Posted February 23, 2009 The auction is over and I would like you, experts, to discuss this sale. Thanks.It looks to me anything but masterart. The varnish color, scroll, off-center end pin hole.... John Juzek Masterart Wow, talk about one being born every minute! Apparently some minutes a few dozen were born. I picked up a Juzek with no table. The wood is very pretty on the back but I was suprised to see that there were no corner blocks. I scratched Juzek off of my possible buy list.
bean_fidhleir Posted February 23, 2009 Report Posted February 23, 2009 I would think the scroll by itself would be a sufficient tipoff.
oldgeezer Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 John Juzek is a trade name for Metropolitan Music violins. They still sell John Juzek violins. List prices today run from $100 to $6,500. For many years they had the New York City Public Schools contract to supply student violins. Low quality John Juzek violins often show up from that source. Most Juzeks are the cheaper models. The expensive Master Art models are rare but the Master Art labels aren't. You can buy copies of old labels from Metropolitan Music,100 for $5.
Dwight Brown Posted February 24, 2009 Report Posted February 24, 2009 Nobody is that stupid.............are they? This can't have been a legit auction. It was only worth the BTUs it could generate if set on fire. D. (was I too harsh?)
shsu Posted February 27, 2009 Author Report Posted February 27, 2009 Can't help myself. Here is another one. Master Art To my untrained eyes, it looks like a mass-produced Strad copies abundant in the thousands if not millions.
richardz Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 Another loser. Yeah agreed about the wood quality, not even a hint of flame on the neck and the rest looks very ordinary. The label looks like fresh non-aged (not even dipped in tea, ha ha) xerox paper and it's supposed to have red ink on it in certain places. There is a little blob of yellow on the lower left......what a half hearted attempt. I like the strategic mis-spellings in the copy which give it a feeling of innocence.
bongeo Posted February 27, 2009 Report Posted February 27, 2009 I have a Master Arts from 1926, left to me by my late father. These pics look nothing like my lovely violin. The scrolls in particular are quite dissimilar. I agree--there's a sucker born every minute.
hrobert Posted March 16, 2009 Report Posted March 16, 2009 I gotta agree; I've got violins I bought at thrift stores I wouldn't trade for 3 of these things.
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