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Violin

Date1920-1943 ca.

Place MadeFrederick, South Dakota, United States, North America

MarkingsWritten in black ink on brown paper label: Repaired by Kerby Brown / Son of David ~ / Harrisburg SD 1986 [cross]
DescriptionNewton D. Atkins, born November 24, 1867 in Chicopee, Massachusetts, to Homer W. and Martha M. Atkins. Father was farmer. In 1880 family was in Richland, IN, in 1883, in South Dakota according SD state census. Documented in Frederick, SD, and died in August, 2, 1943 in Brown County, SD.

Top: two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: medium grain
Back: two-piece maple cut slightly off-the-quarter: very narrow curl descending slightly from center joint
Ribs: quarter-cut maple: narrow curl angled to right; chamfered corners stained black
Head and neck: maple: broad curl; pegbox and scroll edges chamfered and stained black
Edging: deeply cut recurve, particularly in corners where bee sting is offset
Varnish: dark brown shaded to light brown
Fingerboard: ebony; decoratively cut bottom edge
Nut: ebony
Tailpiece: ebony with small mother-of-pearl eye
Tailgut: black plastic
Pegs: four ebony with mother-of-pearl eyes
Saddle: ebony
Endpin: ebony with mother-of-pearl eye
F-holes: lower wings channeled
Linings: spruce
Corner blocks: spruce
Top block: spruce
Bottom block: spruce
DimensionsTotal violin length: 567 mm
Back length: 347 mm
Upper bout width: 168 mm
Center bout width: 106 mm
Lower bout width: 208 mm
Upper rib height: 28-30 mm
Center rib height: 30-31 mm
Lower rib height: 31-32 mm
Stop length: 194 mm
Vibrating string length: 328 mm
Neck length (bottom of nut to ribs): 132 mm

Credit LineGift of Dr. Joseph E. Koob, II, 2024

Object number15829

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