A Chicago maker whose family became one of the most significant in American violin making. He appears at the start of his career in a 1916 trade directory, at the same address as two other makers, and again a century later at the top of the American auction market.
Father and son are not separated below. Which of the two a given source refers to is not established.
- Born (date and place)
- Born 1887, American. reported read from the page image
- Places and dates of work
- 59 E. Adams Street, Chicago, in 1916. documented read from the page image
- Training
- Fifteen years’ experience by 1916, implying a start around 1901. reported read from the page image
- Training
- — reported1
- Models and patterns
- Copyist of Stradivari and Guarneri “in all respects but varnish.” reported read from the page image
- Market history
- — reported1
- What is not known
- Carl Becker Sr. and Carl Becker Jr. are not yet distinguished here. disputed [no source recorded]
How the pages were read
2 of the 6 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.
Notes
- 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. ↩
Instruments
No instruments recorded yet for this maker.