This Robert E. Webber Violin was made in Wisconsin, the USA in 1940. Robert E. Webber is a violin maker and an expert repairer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Robert E. Webber (1865 – 1947) is a violin maker and an expert repairer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Webber was born in 1865 in Germany where he learned his woodworking skills under his father’s training who creates carriages. He received formal training in violin making later before he migrated to the United States in 1888. There he started his violin workshop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he remained until the age of 82 and died in 1947.
This beautiful violin is a French Amati Model made around 1900. Nicola Amati came from a family of luthiers and was later considered the most famous luthier in their clan.
This is a copy of Nikolaus Amatus's violin made in 1636 with a label. Nicola Amati was a master luthier born in 1596, in Cremona Italy. He came from a family of luthiers but was considered the most famous luthier in their clan.
This violin is Labelled Collin-Mezin and was made in Paris dated 1911. Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin came from a line of luthiers where he created various instruments considered superior to other new instruments. This violin is most likely an early copy.
This Friedrich August Glass violin was made after Antonius Stradivarius Flew Copy Cremona. Friedrich August Glass is a German violin maker who concentrated his well-developed skill on producing Stradivarian models. He gained a gold medal for excellent work in London.