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Stoss, Martin

As printed

  1. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1909)

    Stoss, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari pattern, indifferent varnish.

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    2. Stoss, ——. Makers of this name worked at Prague, Vienna, and Fussen, about the end of the 18th century.
    4. Stoss, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari pattern, indifferent varnish.
    6. Straube, ——, Berlin, about 1775.

  2. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1884)

    STOSS, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari model, indifferent varnish.

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    2. STOSS, ——. Makers of this name worked at Prague, Vienna, and Füssen, about the end of the 18th century.
    4. STOSS, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari model, indifferent varnish.
    6. STRAUBE, ——, Berlin, about 1775.

Named in 2 books printed between 1884 and 1909. Read by software from scans of those pages, not yet checked by a person against the page. Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and the software judged them near-certain the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record.

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What the books say

Places and dates of work
STOSS, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari model, indifferent varnish. reported1
Places and dates of work
Stoss, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari pattern, indifferent varnish. reported1
Places and dates of work
Stoss, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari pattern, indifferent varnish. reported1
Places and dates of work
Stoss, Martin, Vienna, about 1824. Flat model, good workmanship. Stradivari pattern, indifferent varnish. reported1

How the pages were read

4 of the 4 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. 3 of them rest on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on their own line: “SECTION XII.—ENGLISH MAKERS.”, “German Makers”, “SECTION X.—GERMAN MAKERS.”.

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  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. ↩

The books behind this record

This record draws on 2 sources. Each is listed below with how it was read, because a claim read from a photo of the page is stronger than one read from machine text.

  1. Hart, George, 1839-1891, The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (London, Dulau and co. [etc.], 1884). archive.org, violinitsfamousm84hart. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm84hart.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  2. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1909). archive.org, violinitsfamousm00hartuoft. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm00hartuoft.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  3. the violin its famous makers and their imitators (1909). archive.org, violinitsfamousm0000geor. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm0000geor.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  4. Hart, George, 1839-1891, The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (London: Dulau, 1909). archive.org, violinitsfamousm00hart. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm00hart.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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