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Click here to subscribeA violin with interior paper label Thornward Stradivarius with ebony strung border and lace veneered back 24.25" long circa 1870 along with a Bausch bow with nickel ebony and mother of pearl mounts 29" long both in a leather covered hinged lid three-catch case the case with scuffed back front and lacking original handle. . Provenance: The violin is said to have belonged to Mr H Thomas Maldwyn Price who was the organist at the funeral of the Earl of Powys on May 15th 1981 at St Marys Church Welshpool. T Maldwyn Price was a prolific composer and was married to Elizabeth Evans an accomplished violinist who may have played this violin
Hill (W. Henry, Arthur F., and Alfred E.). Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work (1644-1737), 2nd ed., 1909, col. frontis., b&w illusts., some light spotting to endpapers, orig. green cloth, some minor soiling and very slightly frayed to extrems., 8vo, together with Fetis (F. J.), Notice of Anthony Stradivari, The Celebrated Violin-Maker, known by the name of Stradivarius, trans. John Bishop, pub. William Reeves, n.d., c. 1864, orig. maroon cloth, somewhat faded to upper cover, 8vo, plus Hill (W. E. & Sons), A Short Account of a Violin by Stradivari, dated 1690, pub. 1889, chromo. frontis., two chromo. plts. and one b&w facsimile plt., untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little soiled, large slim 8vo, and others on violins, various, mostly late 19th and early 20th c., including The History of the Violin, by William Sandys and Simon Andrew Forster, 1864, British Violin-Makers Classical and Modern, by William Meredith Morris, 1904, Recollections of a Violinst, by W. M. Quirke, 1914, a worn copy of The Violin, Famous Makers and Their Imitators, by G. Hart, 1884, etc., mainly 8vo (21)