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The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
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1and Johann Gottlob Ficker, were admitted masters in the Corporation of this worshipful art as before, and were only called upon to promise to conform to the rules of the community and the "Beneficent Mandates relating to the Suppression of Abuses among the Working Classes."
3These mandates were first mentioned in the year 1745. As their title denotes, they were by no means restricted to the violin-maker's Guild alone, and indeed were only recommended to its notice because according to the artistic comprehension of that time, violin-makers were classed with the common workmen.
5Notwithstanding these circumstances, however, it was an epoch in which the authority of the Corporation, with its regulated ritual, its control of the market, and command of remunerative work (with which control not only rights and privileges but also burdens and duties were combined), must have been highly beneficial in its workings, not only to the members of the Corporation and all who were in close relation with it, such as the apprentices, students, and journeymen, but also to all who stood without its immediate influence, but whose interests were in many ways connected with the Corporation.
7What would have become of a branch of industry such as the art and craft of violin-making, in which the sale of the manufactured article depended entirely upon the absolute confidence which the buyer had in the gradually-acquired experience, and trade secrets of the maker, a confidence
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