Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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Violins and violin makers. Biographical dictionary of the great Italian artistes, their followers and imitators, to the present time. With essays on important subjects connected with the violin, 1866

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1CLARK, ——— London.
3COLE, THOMAS, London. Forster says no instrument has been preserved of this maker, but that is a mistake. There is in the neighborhood of Sheffield, a very large Tenor with a fine deep tone and the following curious label.
5Made 1690, by
6THOMAS COLE of
7London, on Holborn Hill, who sel
8leth all sorts of Musical Instruments.
10COLLINGWOOD, JOSEPH, London, 18th Century.
12CORSBY, GEORGE, believed to be formerly a maker at Northampton, and now and for a long time a dealer in Violins, &c., in Princes' Street, Soho, London.
14CONWAY, WILLIAM, 1745
15COLLIER, SAMUEL, 1755.
16CRASK, GEORGE, of various places, has made many Violins in imitation of the Cremona Makers, some of which have been sold by unscrupulous dealers as genuine instruments, an example of which we have

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