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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1John Askew—Violin Maker.
3GILBERT, JEFFREY J. (Violins and Tenors), Peterborough, born 1850, was a good workman, and his instruments were of the value of some £30. Morris gives the number of violins made at 130, and other instruments bring the number up to 156, in the year 1904. An interesting biographical sketch is given in Meredith Morris's British Violin-Makers, from which we quote the following:—"Mr. Gilbert's instruments have gained the following prizes:—International Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1884, Silver Medal (highest award); International Inventions Exhibition, London, 1885, Silver Medal; International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1899, Gold Medal."
5HILL, W. E. AND SONS, The well-known firm of New Bond Street, London, and previously mentioned in these pages, are too well known to require any notice here.
7MAYSON, WALTER H.—The reputation of this violin-maker has been well attested by his life story by the Revd. Meredith Morris, 1906. Mr. Mayson was born at Cheetwood, Manchester, 1835, was self-taught, and commenced making violins in 1873. Up to 1904, the date of Mr. Morris's book, Mayson
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