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Johann Glass Violin 4/4 full size - with appraisal and Dendro analysis circa 1890

Johann Glass Violin 4/4 full size - with appraisal and Dendro analysis circa 1890

$1,232.50 USD
$1,232.50 USD
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This Glass is ready to perform.  Full Dendro report below.

Estate purchase - almost a time capsule of sorts - violin restored to pristine performance level.

Sound sample on YouTube (click here).

This violin is a time capsule of sorts. The curiosities inside point to a younger violinist, perhaps in grade school or middle school/junior high. There are old strings, and items pictured.

It appears the previous owners' name is included in writing (the purchaser will have access to the items, however for family privacy, I shall not share the name online for privacy) 

The unlabeled violin has been determined to be the hand of Johann Glass, and comes with the appraisal from a prestigious shop with Glass violins in stock. 

Comes with violin, case, bow, and items shown in photo, (not the table)

I'm happy to share the appraisal information which placed a value of $4,000.00 USD on the violin.

The violin has:

Dendro test  which cost $230 USD

Appraisal which cost $150

New bushings,

New Pegs

New bridge

New tail piece

New Strings

This violin is a remarkable deal at a remarkable price, much less that the appraised $4,000 value.

Every Millimeter matters, and is crucial on a violin. One millimeter difference on the bridge height, or string height, makes the difference between an effortless playing violin, or one that's difficult and hard to play.

It's the Formula One (F1) sports car of instruments. They are hand built and therefore unique, each requires a great deal of attention and precision for the player. That's why violins purchased from mass markets like Amazon are frowned upon, they typically don't get the attention and fine details right that ensure a violin is at its peak for the player. It takes a skilled craftsman or luthier to ensure everything is correct from the tail piece, to the sound post, to the bridge, string height, and pegs just to name a few of the hundreds of variables that come together to make a great sounding violin.

Each violin sold here has been reviewed to ensure the violin is performance ready, and set up properly for the player. 

Vintage European violin values are on the rse, as there’s a limited supply. The wood quality, craftsmanship, seasoned tone, and age are all desired traits and in limited number.

Why purchase new or rent when pre-owned sounds just as good! Did you know you can buy a quality pre-owned violin like this, and typically sell for the same price if kept in good condition? It’s like having a violin for free. You’re welcome to play prior to purchase.

 

Dedrochronology results:

 

Dendrochronological assessment of a violin from digital images attributed to  "Johann Traugott Glass".    our ref:jrd28524
  
The belly is made in 2 sections, jointed down the middle. 

The ring-orientation runs from the edges towards the centre joint on both halves.

In total, 106 rings were measured on the bass side and 104 on the treble side. 

The most significant cross-matches with my database place the latest fully formed visible ring on the bass side at 1870 CE and 1869 CE on the treble side.
On the treble side the spring growth of the following year is also visible leading to the same overall final date of the bass side of 1870 CE.

A comparison of the plotted data on a graph shows excellent similarities in the ring-patterns, strongly suggesting that they are from the same tree. Their data have a highly significant correlation between them equivalent to a t-value of 11.4, further confirming the same-tree association.

As the 2 sides are patently related, their data were combined into a mean chronology, which usually represents the general ring-pattern of the tree better than individual ring-series.

Data from this mean chronology responded significantly with published Master references from the International Tree-Ring Data-Bank (ITRDB).  The most significant, achieving a t-value of 7.26, refers to the references from the Bavarian Forest. Further Master chronologies from the Beskid Mountains and up to the Pilsko area in Poland also cross-match. 

Several Instrument references compiled of wood thought to originate from the Erzgebirge (Ore) Mountains on the borders between Lower Saxony and the Czech Republic also cross-match significantly, and generally achieved higher levels of correlation, with the most significant t-value reaching a very high t=9.21.

Against data from other instruments, over 200 ring-patterns from our database cross-match at the dates suggested.

The cross-matches identify correlations with instruments from a variety of origins, which contain a good number of "trade" unlabeled thought to be of Bohemian/Markneukirchen provenance.  

From our database, in decreasing order of t-value, they are: 

A c.1890 3/4 French Mirecourt violin, a c.1890 French violin "Jean Morlot", an early 20th century violin replacement front (composite), possibly from the Hill workshop, a violin possibly Bohemian labelled Degani (not by), an 1870s German/Bohemian violin, a cello probably Markneukirchen c.1880, a mid-European viola labelled Vuillaume possibly Hungarian, an early 20th century cello labelled Dollenz, a cello labelled and probably by Vincenzo Gagliano,an 1889 Italian violin by Pietro Grulli, a late 19th century violin likely French, a late 19th century mid-European violin copy of Pressenda, a German/Markneukirchen  viola labelled Hammig, a Markneukirchen violin, a Schoenbach/Markneukirchen violin, a violin probably French labelled 1858 Pierre Sylvestre, a late 19th century Saxon violin, a c.1910 Markneukirchen cello, a violin attributed to Romeo Antoniazzi (probable), a Czech small size violin, etc…

Due to the mixed nature of the provenances of the cross-matching instruments, a credible provenance for the violin cannot be established based on the overall results.  

This type of mixed results seen above is not unusual when the wood provenance is Germany Saxony, as there is now plenty of evidence to support the idea that timber from the Bavarian Forest and the Ore Mountains, as well as being used for local German/Bohemian markets, was exported throughout Europe from about 1830/40 onward.  

Essentially, with a dendrochronological date of 1870, a making date from about the late 1870s onward is possible. 

This date fits with the period when Johann Traugott Glass worked, as I understand was active in Leipzig until 1895.

Kind regards,

Peter

Peter Ratcliff~Luthier
Peter Ratcliff Dendrochronology Ltd
50 Brunswick St, West, Hove, BN3 1EL

Member of EILA, Entente Internationale des Luthiers et Archetiers

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