Instrument

  • ID: 1292
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1716
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: Milstein (Maria Teresa); Goldman
 
Back: Two-piece curly maple of broad figure extending downwards from the center joint

Photos

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  • front, back & f-hole
  • scroll & side

Iconography Index

Black-and-white photo (front & back): Italian Violin-Makers (1952), Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.

Order Black-and-white photos (front & back): Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., 1932.

Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole - initialed by Emil Herrmann): The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Order Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): "How Many Strads? - Supplemental Remarks", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, December, 1946, 1946.

Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Color photos (front & back): J. & A. Beare Newsletter, Autumn, 2007, 2007.


Notes

"Kohl eventually enlisted the help of LA Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour and LA Chamber Orchestra concertmaster Margaret Batjer, who together spent about eight hours testing eight different Stradivari violins at LA's Disney Hall. The violins came from all over the world; two from Chicago, three from London, two from Austria and one, Jack Benny's violin, from Los Angeles.

"They played all day long," Kohl explained to Wednesday's audience. Though the dealers did not disclose the provenance of any of the violins, Kohl said that Batjer was overwhelmed with emotion upon taking the 1716 Milstein Strad from its case. . . .

Kohl purchased the violin from the Milstein family, through Charles Beare of Beare's in London, for an undisclosed price."
http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20067/5475/

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
Jerry Kohl   2006       
Family of Nathan Milstein      2006   
Nathan Milstein   1945  1992     
Emil Herrmann      1945   
Harry Wahl (Viborg, Finland)      1940   
Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart)  1923       
Goldman  1911    1923   
Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart)      1911   
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

Players

Name Played From Played In Played To
...       
Nathan Milstein   1945    1992 
...       

Current player Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments. Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments

Certificates

Dendrochronological analysis: John C. Topham, Redhill. Youngest ring is 1706.

References

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Italian Violin-Makers (1952), Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.

J. & A. Beare Newsletter, Autumn, 2007, 2007.

Order Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., 1932.

Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Order "Harry Wahl, Finnish Collector of Violins", Baron Otto von Schulmann, Violins & Violinists, July-August, 1955, 1955.

Order "How Many Strads? - Supplemental Remarks", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, December, 1946, 1946.

http://inkpot.com/classical/milstein.html

http://www.beares.com/notable_sales.html

http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20067/5475/

Correspondence with Jerry Kohl, April, 2006.

The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.