Instrument

  • ID: 756
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1685
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: MacKenzie; Castelbarco
 
Label: original: "Antonis Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1685"
Ribs: of wood of faint curl
Table: of prominent grain
Body Length: 35.6 cm.
Lower Bout: 20.3 cm.
Back: One-piece cut on the slab
Scroll: plain
Varnish: Golden-brown
Upper Bout: 16.2 cm.
Wurlitzer Number: 8110

Photos

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Iconography Index

Order Black-and-white photo (scroll): Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, Sotheby's, 1976.

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

Order Black-and-white photos (front & back): Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Walter Hamma, Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven, 1993.

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

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side - 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.

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

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

Order Color photos (front & back): Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, Sotheby's, 1976.

Color photos (front, back, side, scroll, button & corners): "The Mackenzie Strad", Daniel Draley, The Strad, March, 1982, 1982.


Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
...         
Dr. Frederick Apfelbaum      1976   
Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.  1954       
Raymond Cerf (Lawrence, Kansas)   1949    1954  For members only 
Nathan E. Posner (Beverly Hills, California)  1929    1949   
...         
Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart)  1920       
R. Humphrey Haslam (Altringham)  1908  1909     
W.E. Hill & Sons      1908   
Lewis Mackenzie  1890  1902     
...         
Alfredo Carlo Piatti   1862      For members only 
Count Cesare Castelbarco (Milan)      1862   
...         

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

Auctions

Auction Date Note Estimate Hammer Price
Sotheby's, New York  Oct-29-1976      For members only 
Puttick & Simpson, London  Jun-26-1862      For members only 

Including buyer's premium
Current record for maker and instrument type
Record at time of sale for maker and instrument type

Certificates

Certificate: Jacques Francais, New York, July 28, 1976

Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London, July 10, 1908. States the instrument is from 1685, not 1687 as Hills had written in the first edition of their book.

Certificate: Rembert Wurlitzer, Inc., New York, December 20, 1960

References

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

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

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

Order Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Walter Hamma, Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven, 1993.

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

Music at Auction. Puttick and Simpson (of London), Harmonie Park Press, 1988.

Order Sotheby Parke Bernet Important Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, October 29, 1976, New York, Sotheby's, 1976.

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

Order "Stradivari Notes", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, June-July, 1951, 1951.

"The Mackenzie Strad", Daniel Draley, The Strad, March, 1982, 1982.

"The Musical Instrument Department at Sotheby's", Graham Wells, The Strad, July, 1980, 1980.

Correspondence with Charles Cerf, May, 2010.

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