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Very old German violin without label from 19th century?
Ok so today i invested in a violin that was made in the 19th century (1800s) it came with a case that is from 1902 the only clue is that it has an odd shaped beckers chin rest that is fairly small it looks like a weirdly shaped potato on it's side or a pool or a lake any way the people i bought it from told me that it was german and was apprased at about 2000+ without knowledge of the maker it has a one piece back (i checked for a seem and there is none) i want to refurbish it and may even play it if its in good enough condition so can anyone help me with figuring out who it was made by? the label may have been lost or fell out since its so old or maybe it is lingering in the violin some where and its stuck in a weird place but i have no way of knowing that without a small camera so help me out :) thnx
they had it appraised as i mentioned before and they are actually a family friend not just some random seller. the person who appraised it gave them all of this information and all of the pieces are originals and the owners grandfather had owned it a long time before ww1 so good sir you misread and i suppose i will wait until someone is willing to help me and not shoot me down in efforts to support their business
one more thing that you also misread is that maybe the label is stuck in an odd place that i am not capable of seeing or was initialed differently and was worn over time and i wish to repair it and keep it instead of selling it so money is not a matter here all i wish to know is who made it
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
If the violin is unlabeled and the seller has no idea who made it, how do you know it is from the 1800's. The chinrest and the case mean nothing as anyone could have put those with it at anytime. You need to take it to a violin shop for an appraisal and not trust just what the seller told you. It is very rare for a label to fall off, they are glued in and don't tend to come loose. It may never have had one, it may have been wrong and thus removed, or it may have been removed to allow someone to sell it for something more than it is. At minimum a violin expert would need to see good quality digital phots and even that may not be enough. Just having a one piece back is also no clue.
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