Poidras, Henri, Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern (Rouen: Imprimerie de la Vicomté, 1930), 2:238. Google Books, pHQHAQAAMAAJ, pg PA238; also HathiTrust mdp.39015012793934. https://books.google.com/books?id=pHQHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA238.
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Who this document names
Names 1 person; 1 has a record here.
- Seymour (Abijah-Hayes) also printed as Seymour, A. H. 2:238
Record details
Read from the Google Books page image on 12 August 2026. Poidras compiled his contemporary American entries from what makers supplied about themselves, so the entry is evidence of what was said about Seymour around 1930, not of what was independently true. It gives no birth or death year. Its closing “N° 856” cross-references his label facsimile on the plate leaf facing p. 256.
- Kind
- Book
- Evidence grade
- Secondary
- Author
- Poidras, Henri
- Title
- Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern
- Place
- Rouen
- Publisher
- Imprimerie de la Vicomté
- Date
- 1930
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 238
- Repository
- Google Books
- Identifier
- pHQHAQAAMAAJ, pg PA238; also HathiTrust mdp.39015012793934
What rests on this source
- Seymour, A. H. worked
- Seymour, A. H. addresses
- Seymour, A. H. born
- Seymour, A. H. trained
- Seymour, A. H. models
- Seymour, A. H. varnish
- Seymour, A. H. output
Everyone this source names
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- Seymour (Abijah-Hayes) 2:238 claim written
Lincoln (Nebraska), 1308 O Street; born at East Enterprise (Indiana); violin and bow maker; self-taught after reading “good works on the subject”; Guarnerius I. H. S. model; oil varnish orange to dark brown, applied in shades. Entry ends “N° 856.”