Ellwangen · 1720 to 1796
Historical maker
Named in 2 books.
Also recorded as: Wagner, B.
What the books printed
Dictionary of Violin makers, Arnold Sewell. 1928. Page 173, scan 249.
WAGNER (B.) — Ellwangen circa 1765. Arched violins. Red or yellow-brown varnish. Large pattern. Powerful tone.
An encyclopedia of the violin, Alberto Bachmann. 1925. Page 46, scan 70. Held as more than one scan.
WAGNER, BENEDICT, Durrwangen, Ellwangen, 1720 to 1796.
- Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and nobody has judged yet whether they mean the same person.
Same name
- Wagner, B. (merged into Wagner, Benedict)
- Wagner, Christian
- Wagner, Christian Salomon
- Wagner, Dominik Caspar
- Wagner, Ernst Victor
- Wagner, Henri
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 7 more Wagner pages under W.
Same town, same time
2 other Ellwangen makers have a year in the 1700s.
- 1740 to 1770 Schmidt, Johann Georg
- 1788 Held, Georg