______ Posted August 8, 2023 Report Posted August 8, 2023 Guys, what you see is written down with a pencil on a back plate above the label inside the violin. It is a first letter of a name and a full surname I suppose. It is hard to read that surname even with my nose nearly pushed through the f-hole. Forgive me, I did my best to provide best possible photos in order to ask for help. What can you see? Ps. The violin is of XIX century Czech origin.
stringcheese Posted August 8, 2023 Report Posted August 8, 2023 My guess would be E. Wernar or maybe Werner.
Jeny Mahon Posted August 9, 2023 Report Posted August 9, 2023 I agree with @stringcheese I think it's E. Wernar. It looks like maybe somebody tried to scratch out the last name leaving the E and the date clear.
K Engle Posted September 6, 2023 Report Posted September 6, 2023 I don't think it's WERNAR. After the WE, I see 4 vertical lines leaning to the right followed by one vertical line leaning left, then the letter R. Those last two lines almost certainly form an A, leaving 3 vertical lines to form other letters. RN would require 4 vertical lines, two for the R and two for the N, so you run out of lines before you can form WERNAR. There's a bit of the wood's grain sort of "connecting" the first two vertical lines which at first glance can look like a pencil mark, which could mislead someone into thinking the two lines were part of the same letter, but I don't think they are. It looks to me like E WEINAR, but I have very little confidence in that, since it's not hard for variation in the wood itself to look like faint pencil marks, and googling that name yields nothing.
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