LarryActuary Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryActuary Posted March 9 Author Report Share Posted March 9 Bass label reads: Copie of Joseph Guaneirus fecit Cremona ann (blur) IHS Made in Germany - researching provenance. Thank you for your insights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddleDoug Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 The fact that it says "Made in Germany" gives an indication of date. Germany didn't exist as a country of that name until 1871. The McKinley Tariff Act of 1891 required labeling of imported items with the country of origin. It was amended in 1914 to require the words "Made in". In 1921 it was amended to require the name of the country be in English. This might put your instrument in the post 1914 period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryActuary Posted March 9 Author Report Share Posted March 9 Thank you Doug !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan slobodkin Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 And by no means a copy of a Guarneri. As far as I know no member of the Guarneri family ever made a bass and Del Gesu certainly didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelbow Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 23 minutes ago, nathan slobodkin said: And by no means a copy of a Guarneri. As far as I know no member of the Guarneri family ever made a bass and Del Gesu certainly didn't. But can you be certain of that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan slobodkin Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 No, but since there are no known examples I can be fairly certain and quite sure that some commercial fiddle shop in Germany never had a chance to copy one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryActuary Posted March 10 Author Report Share Posted March 10 One thougght is the German luthier took a Guarneri violin and blew it up to bass dimensions - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blank face Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Such labels, even if claiming "Copy of something", were totally randomly cut out from the octavo printed sheets and glued in by workers who surely couldn't distinguish between, Strad, Del Gesu, Amati, Stainer or which names ever were written there. To speculate about the degree of copying anything is therefore pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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