strad facsimile label with harp logo?

[hrobert]

I recently bought an old violin that had a Strad facsimile label (1721). Instead of an "A Cross S" in a circle it has a circle

with what appears to be a harp and rays spreading out from it. Anyone seen one like this?

[Josh Henry]

I recently bought an old violin that had a Strad facsimile label (1721). Instead of an "A Cross S" in a circle it has a circle

with what appears to be a harp and rays spreading out from it. Anyone seen one like this?

It sounds like a J.T.L. instrument. These were French instruments from Mirecourt, and often had this logo on the label or on a small, separate label attached inside the instrument.

[Brad Dorsey]

It sounds like a J.T.L. instrument. These were French instruments from Mirecourt, and often had this logo on the label or on a small, separate label attached inside the instrument.

I think that the instrument that appears on the JTL logo that you are thinking of is actually a lyre, not a harp. The JTL logo also incorporates a violin, a bird and often the letters "J.T.L."

I have seen the harp logo that hrobert refers to in, I think, some pretty ordinary commercial German violins.