enberlin Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) Hi I found a really old violin and two bows yesterday at the Salvation Army. Somebody had just donated a ton of cool antiques and I was the lucky buyer of the set at $70. I am a guitar player, so I don't know much about violins, but this was clearly very old and I could not pass it up. One bow is marked "LUPOT" the other " eduard reichert dresden" The pics are linked below. The violin looks old, but with the exception of needing new strings, it appears to be in great shape. What do people think? Thanks in advance for any replies. -Nathan PICS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9692921@N02/14518574831/in/photostream/player https://www.flickr.com/photos/9692921@N02/14335424077/in/photostream/player/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/9692921@N02/14335293678/in/photostream/player/ Edited June 27, 2014 by enberlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enberlin Posted June 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Anybody? Anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rue Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 ...lol...at first I thought you meant a music score...of the Salvation Army Theme song or some such thing... Well...for $70 you really can't go wrong...unless it needs mega-$$$ of repairs... Hopefully someone will have some information for you...although you might need to post additional 'proper' photos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddler45 Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Looking forward to replies to this. I have a bow like the second one you mentioned that I picked up a few years ago. Still in the bow case with no hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enberlin Posted June 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Uh oh... Maybe my topic title has thrown some people off. I wonder if I should repost this with a better title? -Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobsaunders Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 Hi I found a really old violin and two bows yesterday at the Salvation Army. Somebody had just donated a ton of cool antiques and I was the lucky buyer of the set at $70. I am a guitar player, so I don't know much about violins, but this was clearly very old and I could not pass it up. One bow is marked "LUPOT" the other " eduard reichert dresden" The pics are linked below. The violin looks old, but with the exception of needing new strings, it appears to be in great shape. What do people think? Thanks in advance for any replies. -Nathan PICS: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9692921@N02/14518574831/in/photostream/player https://www.flickr.com/photos/9692921@N02/14335424077/in/photostream/player/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/9692921@N02/14335293678/in/photostream/player/ The name “Eduard Reichert Dresden” (both bows or violins) ought to be familiar with regular readers of this forum, since I posted about this trade mark in post # 19 here: http://www.maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/243250-eduard-reichert-1912-violin/#entry584223 It was a trade mark of the big Markneukirchen wholesaler, G. A: Pfretschner, and your bow was never in Dresden, even on holiday. Pfretschner's enormous assortment was imported by their American agent, Schoening of New York, who in turn, supplied the entire US retail trade. One can assume with a great degree of certainty that the violin, indeed the whole set, was also from the same source, and was bought as a school violin set at the beginning of the 20th C. . The Pfretschner firm, would have had the violin made in the cottage industry system (so called „Dutzendarbeit“) in Schönbach, on the Bohemian side of the border, where wages were cheaper. The violin will require professional attention, after decades of neglect, and would, after being repaired properly be a reasonable violin for a school child Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Tucker Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 for $70 - how could you possibly go wrong? Nice old fiddle. Take the above advice as fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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