Cupar

2 makers. The earliest year printed is 1845, the latest 1885.

Every maker here has Cupar in a printed line.

1800s

• 1845 Colville
  COLVILLE (David) — Cupar (Scotland). Towards 1845. Cabinet maker or carpenter who attained a certain skill as a violin maker, Instruments bear his signature in pencil.
• 1845 to 1885 Colville, David
  COLVILLE, DAVID, Cupar: 1845-85. He made excellent instruments on the models of Amati and Stradivari. I saw and tried one of his Amati copies …

The books that name them

• British violin-makers classical and modern; being a biographical and critical dictionary of British makers of the violin from the foundation of the classical school to the end of the nineteenth century, Morris, 1904
• Dictionary of Violin makers, Arnold Sewell, 1928

Some names appear twice under different spellings. Each is one book's spelling.