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DHV:
1617
Tourin ID:

Size:

Bass

Place Made:

Maker:

GB

Date:

16..

Label Text:

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

USA

Philadelphia, PA

No. of Strings:

7

Collection:

Private Collection

Sound Holes:

Flame

Catalog Number:

Head:

Female

Private Owner:

Yes

Previous Owner:

Joann Freeman Shwayder Clayman, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (grandmother of current owner); Edith Freeman (mother of Joann)

Measurements:

Body Length:

67.5

String Length:

68.8

Rib Depth:

12.3

Upper Width:

32.5

Middle Width:

23.8

Bottom Width:

39.1

Information

Source:

TGM visit (at Conclave) 7/12

Literature:

Photographs:

[By TGM: FB+S, head F+B, bass soundhole, hookbar (color)]

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

Ink inscription on inside of center stave of back: “Restored by Chickering / and Sons under the direction / of Arnold Dolmetsch / Boston 1909”: neck, fingerboard (solid ebony), pegbox (lower back carved in Arts and Crafts style), head (looking down the fingerboard), and table (2-piece, with double purfling but no other decoration; soundholes have lower eyes only) not original, surely by Dolmetsch. 5-piece striped back (3 maple, 2 walnut) with double purfling and diamond pattern at neck heel only; no crossbars except soundpost plate. Many (repaired) cracks in ribs. Hookbar with threaded hole for endpin; bridge by W.L. Monical, New York. Table and back overhang ribs slightly; J. Pringle thinks originally so.

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