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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1Mr. Askew, with the inside ticket, "John Askew, Maker, Stanhope, 1888." The purchaser informed the writer that he bought it for his daughter, now Mrs. Wells, who still has the instrument. Before the purchase Mr. Winter had the instrument tested by an expert, who pronounced it one of the finest violins he had ever tried. "Other violinists have said," says Mr. Winter, "that Askew was one of the finest makers of violins, and that they would increase in value." Mr. Winter's daughter, Mrs. Wells, is still (1913) using the violin, and has used it regularly at concerts and home practice. This lady praises her instrument as having a sweet and powerful tone, and is of opinion that "a better instrument than mine, I consider, cannot be found." This violin was made the year after the maker's success at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Jubilee Exhibition in 1887.
3No record 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892.
51895.
6This instrument is owned by Mr. Thos. Ball and it appears to be the last made by our violin-maker. In Miss Hildyard's "Diary" we find (November, 1894):—
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