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jhun_4748
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How or who do I contact to gain information of these violins. Have one to be
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Glutomoto
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The likelihood that you have a genuine Stradivari is, frankly, zilch. All have been accounted for, meaning that if you have one, you know it. Stradivari violins were produced in Italy.
What you most likely DO have is one of the hundreds of thousands of violins produced in the late 1920s/early 1930s, sold in mass-market retailers and even door-to-door. MOST were sold by Sears Roebuck and Co for only a few dollars each (they are in the 1902 catalog for either $2.45 or $6.95, depending on the model.)
Most of them have a paper label inside with the word 'Stradivarius' and various words in either English or German. (Would Stradivari, a seventeen-century Italian craftsman have put a printed label, written in English, on his violin? No.)
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calliarcale
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I believe that all but two of his instruments have been accounted for, and they are thought to be destroyed. The last authentic one found was in the mid 1970's; it was literally in splinters and had to be reconstructed.
My violin has a sticker inside it that says 'Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, Anno 1721' with his encircled 'AS' maker's mark, but then so do thousands of others.
Generally, Strads, Amatis, Guarneris and others are authenticated by a) general
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