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Wilkanowski, William

Cello makerViola makerViolin makerBrooklyn, New York

As printed

  1. Price history, William Wilkanowski

    Brooklyn, New York.

    Prolific. Violins appear regularly in the auction record; violas very rarely.

    No verified total output figure has been established for this record. Do not repeat a number without a source.

    Violins commonly trade in the low four figures, topping at $2,106. A single recorded viola sold for $1,645 on 14 October 2007 — within his violin range rather than above it.

    The viola datum matters beyond this maker: rarity alone does not create a premium at the regional-American tier, because the viola-playing buyer pool is a fraction of the violin pool. The public price history names no auction house for the sale — that detail sits behind the subscription and was not seen.

  2. This claim names a source that has no page on this site yet, so it cannot be checked. It is shown rather than hidden.

    Birth and death dates, training, and place of origin are not yet established from any source read for this record.

    He is widely described as Polish-born, but that has not been verified here and is deliberately not asserted.

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Details and sources

Record note

A prolific Brooklyn maker whose auction record is one of the few American benchmarks with enough sales to be statistically meaningful — which is why he serves as a comparable rather than as a subject. This record is deliberately thin: it contains what has been sourced and nothing else.

What the books say

Places and dates of work
Brooklyn, New York. reported1
Output (claimed and documented)
Prolific. Violins appear regularly in the auction record; violas very rarely. reported1
Market history
Violins commonly trade in the low four figures, topping at $2,106. A single recorded viola sold for $1,645 on 14 October 2007 — within his violin range rather than above it. reported1
What is not known
Birth and death dates, training, and place of origin are not yet established from any source read for this record. disputed [no source recorded]

How the pages were read

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Notes

  1. Read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words, or a typed transcription), not by a person looking at the page image. ↩

Instruments

No instruments recorded yet for this maker.

The books behind this record

This record draws on 1 source, known only from search excerpts. The count weighs how well each source was read, not just how many are cited. A stack of half-read sources does not outweigh one page read properly.

  1. Price history, William Wilkanowski. Tarisio Cozio Archive, Maker_ID=826. https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/price-history/?Maker_ID=826. [Search excerpt only]Secondarysearch excerpt onlycited for 3 linessource record

    No verified total output figure has been established for this record. Do not repeat a number without a source. The viola datum matters beyond this maker: rarity alone does not create a premium at the regional-American tier, because the viola-playing buyer pool is a fraction of the violin pool. The public price history names no auction house for the sale — that detail sits behind the subscription and was not seen.