A 19th/20th century probably German (4/4) violin bearing an apocryphal paper label for Iofredus (Giofreddo?) Cappa, with two-piece back and satinwood and ebonized purfling with ebony pegs and fingerboard together with a Bausch copy (stamped) bow with mother of pearl and nickel silver inlaid fittings and another bow. Together with a similar violin and bow with a two-piece back both with fitted hard cases. 59 cm overall length, 37 cm length of back, the primary item.

Please Note.

The ivory tip plates have been removed from these violin bows to comply with the law governing the sale of ivory and although it may be present in the images that accompany this lot it has in fact now been removed.

Violin 1 (unlabelled) 445.6 grams

Bow 1 (unstamped) 48.9

Violin 2 (bearing label) 432.5 grams

Bow 2 (stamped) 55.8 grams

Bow 3 (with rosewood frog) 63.9 grams

Private estate

Condition Report

Violin one bears NO labels

The instrument's body is bare of varnish and shows some signs of old repairs to the back joint and some repairs to the tail end of the violin near the end pin.

Violin one is unstamped

The bow has the horsehair cut with just vestiges remaining at the ends.

Violin two has NO bridge and is missing some strings

Bow two and three have their horse hair and the pads are a little tatty and the fore end of one is missing some of its ivorine.

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