Scan 236
The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, 1875
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1DAVIS, William, London. Succeeded Richard Davis in the business now carried on by Edward Withers.
3DEARLOVE, Mark, Leeds.
5Dearlove and Fryer,
6Musical Instrument Manufacturers,
7Boar Lane, Leeds, 1828.
9DELANY, John, Dublin. Used two kinds of labels, one of them very small—
11Made by John Delany,
12No. 17, Britain Street,
13Dublin. 1808.
15In the other, which is much larger, he is overflowing with goodwill to the human family and stalwart confidence in his own abilities, which were of a very slender and apocryphal kind.
17Made by John Delany
18In order to perpetuate his memory in future ages.
19Dublin 1808.
21Liberty to all the world
22black and white.
24DENNIS, Jesse, London, 1805. Worked with John Crowther.
26DICKENSON, Edward, London, 1750. Made instruments of average merit. The model is high.
28Edward Dickinson,
29Maker, at the Harp and Crown in the Strand,
30near Exeter Change,
31London. 17—
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