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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1Askew's Violins.
3Our fiddle-maker informed Miss Hildyard that he gave £5 for the wood from which the medal violin, or violins, were made. When sent to Bishop Auckland the violins were valued on the market, at £25 each as previously stated. The writer has not had the pleasure of examining the "Hildyard" Askew, but its pair instrument the "Van Gelderen," can only be described as a thing of beauty. The back is in two pieces and the silvery curl of the wood under its transparent golden varnish is mindful of the ever shifting "Northern Lights." The ribs or sides also give the same shifting panorama or silvery glint. It is a beautiful instrument and has a solid good tone.
5THE "HILTON" ASKEW.
7The writer has called this instrument, dated 1893, the "Hilton," because its owner, Mr. Abraham Hilton, of Barnard Castle, bought it from Mr. Askew and kept it all his life. Mr. Hilton was well-known in Yorkshire and the Durham dales, and many old people can remember him riding through the villages
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