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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1CHAPTER XII.
3LIST OF FOREIGN AND NATIVE MAKERS.
5The dates appended to the following names refer to the year of birth or death, the period during which the maker worked, or they are the earliest and latest dates that have been found upon tickets. In the case of those makers against whose names the word "unknown" is found, it will be understood that no date has, as yet, been assigned. The reader must also understand that many of the first two classes of dates may be almost called purely conjectural, and that numbers of the makers are now little more than names, no specimens of their work being at present known to exist. In many cases I have found that authors, in transcribing a date, have added to or subtracted from it, apparently according to their fancy, in the following manner: A date, say 1630, is given by an early writer as that of the period at which a maker lived; a following author says, "during the first half of the seventeenth century;" and his successor says, in order, probably, that he may not repeat the very words of his authority, "in the early part of the seventeenth century." It then
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