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Sold with a photocopy of the certificate of E. Maucotel & P. Deschamp dated Paris 20 July 1925 stating the instrument to be the work of Johann Strobl
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A German violin, 18th century, labelled Johann Strobl Geigenmacher/in Hallein 1714; the two-piece back of almost plain wood, the scroll similar, the ribs of medium curl, the table of narrow grain, the varnish of an orange brown colour over a golden ground, the length of back 14.1/8in. (35.8cm), in case