Glasgow · 1855
Historical maker
Named in 3 books.
What the books printed
Dictionary of Violin makers, Arnold Sewell. 1928. Scan 195.
BROWN (Alexander) — Glasgow 1855. Stradivarius model. Dry varnish.
Die Geigen- und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 1904. Page 74, scan 96.
Brown, Alexander. — Glasgow. 1855. 1860.
Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 1922. Page 60, scan 64.
Brown, Alexander. — Glasgow. 1855. 1860
- Entries from 3 books stand under this name, and we are not sure they mean the same person. That is on hold until somebody settles it.
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 4 more Brown pages under B.
Same town, same time
22 other Glasgow makers have a year in the 1800s. A few of them:
- born 1848 Cooper, Hugh W.
- born 1850 Whitelaw, James
- born 1855 Briggs, James William
- born 1856 Anderson, John II.
- 1860 Plane, W. Glasgow
- about 1860 Thomson