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$4,500German "Maggini" Copy violinThe German violinmaking workshops of the Vogtland area were fond of producing violins made in the style of Giovanni Paolo Maggini. This is a particularly elegant interpretation of his work, with a narrow waist and slender shoulders. The ‘f’ holes are striking, with very open nicks. An amber-colo...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$25,000Christo Marino violin, Cremona 2011Bulgarian Luthier Christo Marino trained as a violin maker at The International School of Violin Making A. Stradivari alongside his wife Eva. After graduating, they remained in Cremona, where they set up their own workshop in 1999. This handsome violin was made in 2011 in the style of Guarneri del G...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$6,000Kelvin Almy electric violin, WellingtonKevin Almy has been making acoustic and electric musical instruments for most of his life. After graduating from the Welsh School of Musical Instrument making in 1991, he established his specialist violin business ‘Almy Violins’, in Wellington, before returning to the UK two decades later. This ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$17,500European, unlabelled violin, possibly English, 18th CenturyThis eighteenth century European violin has continued to intrigue us over the years. While the Stainer-inspired, soft contours and rounded shoulders hint at a Kloz-school influence, the painted purfling lines and hollowed pegbox walls point more to an English origin. The wood is well-selected, with ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$6,000Hermann Richard Pfretzschner violin bowThe famous German bow maker Hermann Richar Pfretzschner retired from active bow making in 1914, but his small, high-quality workshop continued under the leadership of his two sons Hermann and Berthold. This bow, owned by a New Zealand player for many years, probably dates from the 1950s, and is a gr...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$1,800Wilhelm Raum violin bowThis silver-mounted, pernambuco violin bow was made in the Wilhelm Raum workshops in Markneukirchen in the mid-twentieth century, and bears the workshop’s distinctive brand on the ebony frog and well and the maker’s full name on the stick. The bow produces a full, strong sound, with plenty of ov...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$3,000Collin-Mézin violin bowCharles Jean-Baptiste Collin-Mézin is famous for his violins, and for the highly successful small workshop he set up in Mirecourt, once his personal instruments had achieved prize-winning success. Neither he nor his luthiers were bow makers, so, to complement his instrument sales, he purchased good...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$12,000Peter Wamsley violin, London 1730Peter Wamsley was one of the more prominent English violin makers of the later part of the seventeenth century through to the early-mid eighteenth century. He was appointed violin maker to the Prince of Wales before retiring in 1741 after a long and illustrious career. This violin, inspired by the w...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$50,000Giovanni Lazzaro violin, 2013Giovanni Lazzaro is a pre-eminent Italian violin maker who is also sought after for his highly skilled and sophisticated restoration work, and in-depth understanding of tonal adjustment, working for many leading musicians from Italy’s finest ensembles. In 1985, he graduated with full marks from th...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$55,000Giovanni Lazzaro violin, 2022Giovanni Lazzaro is a pre-eminent Italian violin maker who is also sought after for his highly skilled and sophisticated restoration work, and in-depth understanding of tonal adjustment, working for many leading musicians from Italy’s finest ensembles. In 1985, he graduated with full marks from th...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$60,000Joseph Hel violin, Lille, 1885Joseph Hel trained with Sebastien Vuillaume, nephew of the famous Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, before setting up his own workshop in Lille in 1865, where he established himself as one of France’s pre-eminent nineteenth century violin makers. Numerous awards and prizes were crowned when he was made an ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$40,000Ch. J.B. Collin-Mezin violin, 1889Charles Jean-Baptiste Collin-Mezin is one of the more well-known French makers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His own work, culminating in a Grand Prix in 1900, enabled him to expand his workshop, employing a small number of skilled luthiers in Mirecourt to make the subsequent...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$3,200Carl Anton Herold violin, GermanyThe luthiers of the Herold family were mostly based in Brunndöbra, a region in Saxony adjacent to Klingenthal and close to the Czech border. Carl Anton Herold established his business in Klingenthal in 1833, where his workshop produced and exported many instruments of good student quality over the ...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0 -
$16,000European unlabelled violin, 18th centuryThe maker of this attractive and intriguing mid-late eighteenth century violin has drawn his inspiration from the work of Guarneri del Gesu, while embracing stylistic elements from the Amati family and his own imagination. For much of the eighteenth century outside Italy, makers favoured high, round...Buy from Store ⊕ More like this 0 0
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