italian violin?

[violinouno]

http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4712.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xgeige+grancino.TRS0&_nkw=geige+grancino&_sacat=0

 

hello guys. what is it? is it really an italian violin?

[deans]

When I click on the link a couple listings show up. The first one is definitely a no IMO. The second one is more interesting, but I will also say no on that one too. Maybe somebody else will chime in on the second one

[Will L]

Are you asking about the "Grancino?"

[not telling]

Its a helpful illustration of how not to glue the back together. Nasty center seam. Did it come apart and get reglued or did someone just hack it together and pray it would carve out (or maybe someone just did not care, since they glued 700 other violin backs that day)? It's pretty though, and old.