Instrument

Iconography Index

"How Many Strads? - Part XXXV", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, January, 1943, 1943: Black-and-white photos (front, back & side).

Dictionnaire des Luthiers, vol. 2, Henri Poidras, Imprimierie de la Vicomté, Rouen, 1929: Black-and-white photos (front, back & side - Plate XXXIV).

Die Kunst des Geigenbaues (1997), Otto Möckel, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Berlin, 1997: Black-and-white photos (front & back).

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945: Black-and-white photos (front, back & side).

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

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

The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Box 43: Black-and-white photos (front, back & side - initialed by Emil Herrmann).

The Stradivari Memorial (1977), William Dana Orcutt, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977: Black-and-white photos (front, back & side).

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

Notes

Emil Herrmann notes: "absolut erstklassig und tad. echt. . . Sehr brilliant . .. im Ton. . ."

The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Box 43.

Provenance

Owner	Owned From	Owned In	Owned Till	Price paid
David Sarser (New York)	1948
Efrem Zimbalist	1925		1948	For members only
Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.	1925		1925
Erich Lachmann	1925		1925
Dr. Steiner-Schweitzer (Zurich)	1924		1925
Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart)	1924		1924
Dr. Hans Kühne (Lindau/Cologne)	1923		1924
Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart)			1923
Maucotel & Deschamps	1922			For members only
Caressa & Francais (Paris)	1917
Becker	1890		1917
Charles Lamoureux		1870	1890
...
Marquis de Louvencourt
...

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

Players

Name	Played From	Played In	Played To
...
David Sarser	1948
Efrem Zimbalist	1925		1948
...

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

Certificates

Certificate: Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Cincinnati

References

Antonio Stradivari and His Instruments, William Henley, Amati Publishing, Ltd., Sussex, 1961.

Antonio Stradivari: His Life & Work (1644-1737), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902.

Caressa & Francais Notebook (c1900 - 1936), part of the Jacques Francais Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..

Dictionnaire des Luthiers, vol. 2, Henri Poidras, Imprimierie de la Vicomté, Rouen, 1929.

Die Kunst des Geigenbaues (1997), Otto Möckel, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Berlin, 1997.

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

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

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

Stradivarius-Guarnerius del Gesù: Catalogue descriptif de leurs instruments (Facsimile of Gand's notes from 1870-91), Charles-Eugène Gand, Les Amis de la Musique, Spa, 1994.

The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Box 43.

The Stradivari Memorial (1977), William Dana Orcutt, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977.

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

"A Collector of Violins", Dr. Hans Kühne, Violins & Violinists, August, 1951, 1951.

"How Many Strads? - Part XXXV", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, January, 1943, 1943.

Correspondence with David Sarser, June, 2005.