A VERY FINE ITALIAN VIOLIN by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini labelled Jo. Bapt. Guadagnini/Cremonensis alumnus Antonii Stradivari fecit Taurini; the one-piece back of handsome medium curl, the ribs and scroll similar, the table of medium grain, the varnish of a red-brown colour over a golden ground, the length of back 13 15/16in.

THE EX-KOSMAN

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A VERY FINE ITALIAN VIOLIN by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini labelled Jo. Bapt. Guadagnini/Cremonensis alumnus Antonii Stradivari fecit Taurini; the one-piece back of handsome medium curl, the ribs and scroll similar, the table of medium grain, the varnish of a red-brown colour over a golden ground, the length of back 13 15/16in.
(35.4cm.)

Sold with the receipt of H. C. Silvestre dated 29 May 1897, the certificate of Max Möller dated 5 September 1938 and the certificate of W. M. Moennig & Son dated 26 September 1955

Literature

Ernest Doring,The Guadagnini Family of Violinmakers, Chicago, 1949, p. 240 (illustrated) and p. 241

Lot Essay

This violin is known as the Ex-Kosman after the Dutch violinist
Elkan Kosman who acquired the instrument from the collection of
H.C. Silvestre. Kosman emigrated to the United States in about 1902, after a career in Britain, and formed a string quartet in Philadelphia with Edwin Brill, Howard Rattay and Rudolph Hennig. The violin was acquired by Max Möller & Son of Amsterdam and was subsequently sold to William Moennig & Son in Philadelphia. (op.cit)

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