Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 357

Dictionnaire des luthiers anciens et modernes, critique et documentaire — Tome additif (supplement), 1929

34 lines. Read by computer on 6 October 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.

1Oil Varnished
2GEORGE WITHERS & SONS
3Leicester Square.
4LONDON
519
7Fritz Pulpaneck fecit anno 1911
8Los Angeles, California.
10Cajetanus Sgarabotto Vicentinus *
11fecit Mediolanum anno Domini 19
13John Burrow one of two readings
14John Barrow one of two readings
15Violin Maker
16BRIDGEPORT
17Conn. U.S.A.
19GIOVANNI LONGIARU
20VENICE – NEW YORK
21A.D. 1926
22No. 125
24T. Hammett 1920
26ROBERT ROBINSON, FECIT.
27PORTLAND, OREGON, U.S.A.
28Ann December 1926 No 171, No 171. one of two readings
29Ann December 1926 No 171, No 172 one of two readings
31G. William Hofmann
32fecit Dublin, Anno 1909. one of two readings
33fecit Dublin, Anno 1909 one of two readings

The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.