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Violin

Maker Giovanni Battista Ceruti

Date1810 ca.

Place MadeCremona, Italy, Europe

Serial No.none

SignedFascimile of printed label with decorative star border: Jo: Baptista Ceruti Cremonensis / fecit Cremon' An. 1801 GBC (monogram)
MarkingsPrinted label on top block in blue ink with red dotted line border, the date and year of repair handwritten in ink: GENGLER VIOLINS / Repaired Nov / SEATTLE, WA / 1961.
Scratched into varnish on lower treble rib near endpin: 4639.
Handwritten in ink on paper label, visible through treble f-hole: A 345.
Bridge stamped: C. GIVENS MPLS
Written in pencil on underside of fingerboard: [illegible] Gengler 1961 / Seattle Wash
DescriptionTop: two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: medium grain, widening then narrowing at the flanks
Back: one-piece, semi-slab-cut maple: mostly plain, with faint narrow curl at center bout; knots at upper-bass and center bouts; filled wormholes under original varnish and purfling; ebony dowels through back into top and bottom blocks; ebony crown over button
Ribs: semi-slab-cut maple, faint curl; filled wormholes under original varnish
Head: maple: faint, very narrow curl; pegbox cheeks refaced
Neck: maple: medium curl; grafted
Edging: sharply scooped
Varnish: golden, with very fine craquelure; dark red retouch at pegbox base and neck heel
Fingerboard: ebony; small maple wedge added to raise height; probably added in 1961 [see identifying marks]
Tailpiece: ebony; one nickel-plated brass fine tuner
Tailgut: black plastic
Pegs: rosewood
Saddle: ebony
Endpin: ebony
F-holes: slightly undercut on wings; inside edges stained black
Linings: spruce; set into corner blocks
Corner blocks: spruce

DimensionsTotal violin length: 584 mm
Back length: 350 mm
Top length: 347 mm
Neck length (nut to ribs): 133 mm
Upper bout width, back: 163 mm
Center bout width, back: 110 mm
Lower bout width, back: 201 mm
Upper bout width, top: 163 mm
Center bout width, top: 110 mm
Lower bout width, top: 202 mm
Upper rib height: 28-30 mm
Center rib height: 28-30 mm
Lower rib height: 29-30 mm
Stop length: 192 mm
Vibrating string length: 327 mm
ProvenancePurchased by J. Laiten Weed from Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., New York, September, 1948

Credit LineGift of J. Laiten Weed Estate, 1990

Object number04900

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