Tourte

TOURTE — Paris circa 1760. Father of the two bow makers above mentioned. A talented bow maker who, it is thought, changed the rack used for tightening the hair by a screw and screw nut. This very important improvement in all probability took place at a much earlier date.

• May be the same person as Tourte

Same name

• Tourte
  Paris · 1740 to 1780
• Tourte
  Paris · b. 1747
• Tourte, A n
  Paris · about 1780
• Tourte, Franç
  No town printed · b. 1714, d. 1835
• Tourte, Xav
  No town printed · 1776
• Tourte, Xaver (l'aîné)
  No town printed

Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 1 more Tourte page under T.

Same town, same time

267 other Paris makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:

• 1760 to 1832 Lafleur, J.
• 1760 to 1780 Leclerc, J. N.
• 1760 to 1777 Leclerc, Joseph Nicolas
• about 1760 Mast, J.-L.
• 1760 Michelot, Jacques-Pierre
• 1760 to 1780 Piete, N.

All Paris makers