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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1was contemporary with Pierray and Boquay. Claude Boivin was a good maker from about 1744 to 1752.
3The well-known name of Henry first appears as a maker in the earlier years of last century, and has so continued through successive generations down to our day. Jean Baptiste Henry, the first of the present family, did not mark or sign his instruments at all. Subsequently, his sons marked those which passed through their hands. His is good work. He died in 1831. Jean Baptiste Felix Henry, born in 1793, was a pupil of his father, and began business in 1817, going afterwards to Bordeaux (1823), and remaining there two years. He then removed to Marseilles, returning to Paris in 1844, and dying there in 1858. He made a great number of instruments, but never signed them. Charles, the second son of Jean Baptiste, was born in 1803, and was also a pupil of his father, succeeding to the latter's business in 1831. All his instruments (without exception) are said to contain a small ticket, in graceful manuscript: "Carolus Henry, Luthier, rue Saint-Martin, No. 151; fecit Anno Domini;" and around this inscription there is a neat and regular ink line. His work is excellent, but the dimensions of his instruments vary. They have a reddish yellow varnish. Octave Henry, a son of Jean Baptiste Felix, was born in 1826, and was employed by his uncle Carolus, and also by Maucotel. He went to Grenoble in 1854, where, perhaps, he still is. Eugene Henry, a son of Carolus, born in 1843, is, or was recently, the Parisian representative of this assiduous and somewhat distinguished family. He is chiefly employed with the repair of ancient instruments. There was a Henry in Paris before any of
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