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 is a French JTL Virtuoso Violin Copy (c 1900) of Francisco Ruggieri dated 1671. Ruggieri was a skilled instrument maker from a renowned family of luthiers in Cremona, Italy. JTL represents Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy & Cie, a French musical instrument manufacturing company established by Louis Emile Jérôme Thibouville and Marguerite Hyacinthe Lamy in the early 1900s.
This is a John Jusek Violin made in Czechoslovakia around 1920 with its label and signature inside. This is one of the finest exported violins of the Czechoslovakian string instrument merchant John Juzek.
This Vienna Style Violin is an Amati Copy believed to be made in Austria around 1910. Nicola Amati came from a family of luthiers who later became the most famous master luthier in their clan.
This Violin is Labelled (Copy) August Reichers which is made in Berlin. August Reichers (1836 – 1893) is a German violin maker who learned his trade in Markneukirchen, Germany under Carl Friedrich Fickers.
This is the 7/8 French Violin c 1920 Strad Copy. We all know that Antonio Stradivari is a renowned Italian violin maker who was said to have brought the craft of violin-making into its highest pitch of perfection.
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.