DHV:
1093
Tourin ID:
1760 C
Treble ?
Frederick
Hintz
# of Strings:
6
Place Made:
GB, London
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J,
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Head:
Open scroll
Catalog Number:
Label Text:
F. Hintz [stamped at top of back and on back of pegbox]
Measurements:
String Length:
45.5
Total Length:
Body Length:
43.5
Upper Width:
Rib Depth:
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
Previous Owner:
Dennis Nesbitt (and wife Nancy); Dietrich Kessler
Information Source:
Sotheby’s 6/14/90, lot 290
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Auctions:
Comments:
Montagu 1991, p. 103; Sotheby’s 6/14/90, lot 290; Made for Music 1986, no. 4
Sotheby’s 6/14/90, lot 290 (F+B); Made for Music 1986, no. 4 (front 7/8)
Sotheby’s 1990/06/14, lot 290
Sotheby’s & Made for Music: 2-piece back, inked purfling. Sister instrument was lot 305 at Sotheby’s 11/25/76 (purchased by H. M. Brown). Montagu 1991: “something between a tenor and a treble...horrible varnish”. G. Wells to TGM 2/04: purchased by art department (since disbanded) of a Japanese department store (Seibu), for a client. Kessler’s prior ownership revealed by chance in a phone conversation 12/05; he didn’t recall from whom he bought it, or whether he made a new fingerboard (or neck).