Violin
Distributor
Lyon & Healy
Date1914 ca.
Place MadeMirecourt, France, Europe
ModelEureka Violin Style 1001
Serial No.none
SignedPrinted in brown ink on paper label with bold dotted-line border, the year and model number written in brown ink: The Lyon & Healy / Eureka Violin / Chicago, A. D. 1915 Style 1001Printed on small paper label below previous: FRANCE
Branded on bridge toward tailpiece: L H [signature]
Written in pencil on bridge toward fingerboard: FE / 50
MarkingsScratched in varnish of top on each side of lower bout, facing outside: H. R.
Abstract snake scratched in varnish of top on each side of upper bout
DescriptionTop: two-piece spruce cut off-the-quarter: medium grain; nail through top into bottom block on bass side of center joint; two patched flaws in wood on each side of tailpiece, upper end
Back: one-piece, semi-slab-cut maple: plain; nail through back into bottom block
Ribs: maple cut slightly off-the-quarter: plain; rib corners chamfered
Head and neck: maple: very faint, very narrow curl
Edging: edges not scooped
Purfling: scratched lines
Varnish: dark red
Fingerboard: black-stained maple; black-printed paper fingerboard chart glued to surface, “copyright 1899 by O. A. Lewis”
Nut: ebony
Tailpiece: black-stained maple with white imitation-mother-of-pearl celluloid eye; saddle does not fully extend to edges
Tailgut: red gut
Pegs: two black-stained maple with convex heads; one black-stained pearwood with mother-of-pearl eye and single ring collar; one black varnished ebony
Saddle: ebony or black-stained maple; placed slightly on bass side of center; finished with same varnish as body
Endpin: ebony
F-holes: undercut
Linings: hardwood, perhaps willow; rectangular
Corner blocks: spruce
Top block: hardwood, perhaps willow
Bottom block: hardwood, perhaps willow; small
Other: circular saw marks visible on inside and outside of ribs, on top and bottom blocks, and on saddle; diagonal machine-carving marks on inside and outside of back
DimensionsBack length: 360 mm
Total violin length: 593 mm
Upper bout width: 167 mm
Stop length: 193 mm
Center bout width: 111 mm
Vibrating string length: 325 mm
Lower bout width: 208 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 131 mm
Upper rib height: 32-34 mm
Center rib height: 32-34 mm
Lower rib height: 31-33 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesNewsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XV, No. 1 (February 1986), p. 1.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02896
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