Sydney

2 makers. The one year printed is 1854.

Every maker here has Sydney in a printed line.

1800s

• born 1854 Heaps, Alfred Walter
  HEAPS, ALFRED WALTER, Sydney, N.S.W. He is the son of the late John Knowles Heaps, of Leeds, and was born in January 1854. He commenced to study …

No year printed

• no year Heaps, Alfred
  Heaps, Alfred, 19th century Australian violin maker, working at Sydney about 1880. He used an excellent varnish and his instruments are of good quality.

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
• The MacMillan EncyclopEdia Of Music And Musicians In One Volume-I, 1938

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