Lidocaine Posted February 15, 2025 Report Posted February 15, 2025 Can someone provide some thoughts on this violin? Is this violin from Markneukirchen? Thanks!
Blank face Posted February 15, 2025 Report Posted February 15, 2025 Yes, looks like Saxony/West Bohemian but not Ficker and more first half or mid 19th century. Not sure if the scroll belongs, is it grafted?
Lidocaine Posted February 15, 2025 Author Report Posted February 15, 2025 Yes. It is grafted. In your opinion, is this one of those massive factory produced violin, or by an individual maker? what is the style of the ff holes? what features of this violin give you hint that it’s perhaps from Saxony/ West Bohemian in first half of 19th century? Is it the highly arched construction? Color of the varnish? More elongated form of the violin dimension? Style of the ff holes?
Blank face Posted February 16, 2025 Report Posted February 16, 2025 10 hours ago, Lidocaine said: Yes. It is grafted. In your opinion, is this one of those massive factory produced violin, or by an individual maker? what is the style of the ff holes? what features of this violin give you hint that it’s perhaps from Saxony/ West Bohemian in first half of 19th century? Is it the highly arched construction? Color of the varnish? More elongated form of the violin dimension? Style of the ff holes? A mixture of all this, and the fact that I've seen several of the same style before. The time frame would be in the period of the start of mass production. The impression about the scroll is that it looks younger than the body and doesn't match the figure. The violin surely starts with a throughneck, which is often replace the one or other way - with a grafted on original or complete new scroll/neck.
uguntde Posted March 26, 2025 Report Posted March 26, 2025 In MHO this is not mass production. What lets it down is the wrong scroll.
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