Violin Id help please!

[StringsTeacherES]

Hello everyone, 

       I recently bought this violin at an auction and I'm genuinely curious if anyone can tell me anything about it.  The label says "Joseph Guarnerius Fecit Cremonae anno 1754" with the IHS on the Right side and the cross above.  Of course this is not a Guarnerius and I understand from reading here that it is probably a german trade violin made in the Markneukirchen region?  Can anyone confirm that from the pictures?  I was also just curious if anyone could tell me anything else about it just from looking at it.  It looks like it has nails or pins in the back and a separate piece of wood where the end button enters.  I've never seen either of those before.  Maybe it was part of a previous repair? It also came with an unidentified bow that I'm curious if it would be worth rehairing.  I will include photos below.  I was actually able to string it up after resetting the sound post (including with the old gut D string it came with!) and the tone was good I think, nice overtones, although I just played it briefly and I don't think I have the sound post in the exact right spot. I think I am going to have to do something about the bridge feet depressions though.  There was a slight buzz that I think was coming from the bridge feet or from the old D string. 

Any thoughts, ideas, knowledge, help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

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[sospiri]

Yes it is from the Markneurkirchen/Schönbach area circa late 19th/early 20th century.

The f holes are a decent imitation of Guarneri del Gesu. The wood is nice and it's well made. Yes, get the bow rehaired. It's made of abeillewood which was cheap, but a very good wood for bowmaking.

It has been refinished with shellac at some point which helps preserve the original finish. It's a nice looking instrument and many of these, if they had good graduations of the top or have been regraduted can sound very nice.

[jacobsaunders]

"the usual" ie. good Markneukirchen cottage industry. The dents in the belly are no problem, you wil have to carve (have carved) a bridge that corresponds to the "dents", no diffuculty for a competent violin maker. I rather doubt that the bow is worth repairing.

[Blank face]

The bow looks rather early, and the nickel mounted frog possibly doesn't belong (bad fit and stylistically much later), nor the misshaped metal headplate, but perhaps the adjuster. At the moment I can't tell what kind of wood was used, maybe some sort of bloodwood ( @fiddlecollector around?).

[sospiri]

34 minutes ago, Blank face said:

The bow looks rather early, and the nickel mounted frog possibly doesn't belong (bad fit and stylistically much later), nor the misshaped metal headplate, but perhaps the adjuster. At the moment I can't tell what kind of wood was used, maybe some sort of bloodwood ( @fiddlecollector around?).

In one of the photos the bow appears to have concentric rings of cell walls across the width which is not a feature of Abeillewood, so yes, I too defer to fc

[fiddlecollector]

Probably some sort of exotic wood species