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Boussu, Eterbeck

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

    BOUSSU, Eterbeck, le Bruxelles, about 1750.

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    2. BOURDET, Jacques, Paris, 1751.
    4. BOUSSU, Eterbeck, le Bruxelles, about 1750.
    6. BRETON, Le, Mirecourt, 1812—1830. Common-

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

    BOUSSU, Eterbeck, le Bruxelles, about 1750.

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    2. BOURDET, Jacques, Paris, 1751.
    4. BOUSSU, Eterbeck, le Bruxelles, about 1750.
    6. BRETON, 1777. This name is met with branded on the backs, "Breton à Paris." A little heavy in character, but fairly made; dark brown colour.

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
BOUSSU, Eterbeck, le Bruxelles, about 1750. reported1
Places and dates of work
BOUSSU, Eterbeck, le Bruxelles, about 1750. reported1

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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

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  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. 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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