Wurlitzer number help

[smf]

I have a violin with a Wurlitzer action number of 3446 in it.   I would love to know more about how to find the actual action listing.  Not a valuable, but sentimentally irreplaceable instrument 

[Dwight Brown]

https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0469/ref1151?s=0&n=10&t=K&q=*&i=0

I found this at the Smithsonian.  Not sure it helps.

DLB

[smf]

I’ll write them and ask for some information.   The violin involved was my teacher’s, which I now own.   He left during the Hungarian revolution of the mid 1950s.   He survived the nazis and the Russians.   No telling when he got the instrument.   It’s a nice mittenwald violin: All he could afford after leaving everything.   Thank you.  

[Brad Dorsey]

3 hours ago, smf said:

…a violin with a Wurlitzer action number…

What makes you think that it’s an auction number, and not just a regular inventory number?  I never heard that Wurlitzer auctioned violins.  Did they?

[smf]

A bad choice of words there.  Same font and style as many inventory numbers.  This is very much a long shot.  The owner of the violin would have bought the violin in 1957-60 probably.   The company was a large dealer then.  It’s a fools errand, but I fit the bill for that.  

[Brad Dorsey]

7 hours ago, smf said:

...The violin involved was my teacher’s...

Do you know that the violin was sold by Wurlitzer?  If yes, was it Rudolf Wurlitzer or Rembert Wurlitzer?

[smf]

Unfortunately not.   

[Brad Dorsey]

Roy Ehrhardt'S "Violin Identification and Price Guide, Book 3" reproduces a number of catalogs of old violins that were originally published from 1909 to 1975, but, unfortunately, none of them lists a violin with the inventory number 3446.

[smf]

Thanks for looking.  I may never know more and that’s ok.  

[GennadyF.]

Is the number written on a rectangular paper under the right F-hole inside the violin?

Check out Wurlitzer catalogs from 1910-20, 3446 is probably during that time period.

The violins in the 1931 catalog are #6000 and up.

 

[GennadyF.]

Are you sure it's a Wurlitzer number?

It would help if you have a photo of the numbers.

[smf]

[Jacobus Drainer]

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