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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1ANECDOTES.
31. Violin by Antonio and Girolamo Amati, Cremona … 1616
42. ,, ,, Niccolo Amati … … … … … 1647
53. ,, ,, ditto … … … … … 1667
64. ,, ,, Andrea Guarneri … … … … … 1657
75. ,, ,, Giuseppe Guarneri, figlio … … … … 1705
86. ,, ,, Antonio Stradivari … … … … … 1708
97. ,, ,, ditto … … … … … 1719
108. ,, ,, Giovanni Ruggeri … … … … … 1653
119. ,, ,, Francesco Ruggeri .. … … … … 1670
1210. Tenor by Antonio and Girolamo Amati … … … 1617
1311. ,, ,, ditto ditto … … … … 1618
1412. ,, ,, Francesco Ruggeri … … … … … 1619
1513. Violoncello by Amati, Cremona … … … … … 1622
1614. ,, ,, Andrea Guarneri … … … … … 1692
18The above announcement cannot fail to make one reflect on the different degree of interest excited by a sale of Cremonas a century ago and one at the present time. The sale conducted by Signor Albinoni, in 1790, at Milan, doubtless passed with but little, if any, display of enthusiasm, and were it now possible to learn the prices realized, they would certainly give occasion for surprise when compared with those now obtained. As regards the increased interest taken in rare Violins, the sale of the Gillott collection, in 1872, furnishes an instance of comparatively recent date. The announcement of Messrs. Christie and Manson served to bring together in King Street, St. James's, a legion of Violin votaries. So unusual was the excitement that The Graphic had one of its pages occupied by an excellent representation of "Viewing the Violins." In Paris, in the year 1878, the sale of a Stradivari Violin, at the Hôtel Drouot, gave rise to an unusual display of interest. The first bid was for ten thousand francs, and the Stradivari, dated 1709, was knocked down for the large sum of twenty-two thousand one hundred francs. When the biddings at the Hôtel des Ventes
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