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violin

human history
  • Other Name

    Rangitoto (maker's title)

  • Description

    violin, scroll head, four pegs, four strings, usual bridge, first metal screw missing, attached chin piece, two piece back, ivory end pin, bone inlay, thin double black line borders top belly and back plate

    1 violin Tongariro

    W J Edwards, Wellington, New Zealand, 1906

    maple, spruce, poplar, ebony, gut, length of back 360 mm

    labelled ‘TONGARIRO / W. J. Edwards, fecit / Wellington New Zealand / anno 1906’

    1998.60.53 Castle 80

    W J Edwards described himself as ‘an expert maker of violins, violoncellos and bows’. His workshop and store were located at 97 Lambton Quay, Wellington.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1998.60.53.1
  • Accession Date
    10 Oct 1998
  • Other Id

    80 (Castle)

    79 (Castle)

    19 (Maureen)

  • Department

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