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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 118960, member: 55"]A good idea. With violins, only a professional can really tell about quality and value versus restoration cost. It is not like guitars, where there were relatively few manufacturers, and labels were generally honest (A Martin guitar is a Martin guitar, and can be valued fairly easily).</p><p>With violins, there were many thousands of makers, and a long history of false labels.</p><p> When I took one of my violins (a 1797 J.G. Ficker) in for appraisal to a reputable Seattle shop, they consulted huge reference books with information on signatures, labels, maker's history....a very interesting process. They ultimately provided documentation of every aspect including every repair that had been made over the years. An old violin wears its history...... The bow, 75 years newer, was still valued in the $500 range, and needed a whole different set of reference books; so you want to have the bows looked at by a professional also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 118960, member: 55"]A good idea. With violins, only a professional can really tell about quality and value versus restoration cost. It is not like guitars, where there were relatively few manufacturers, and labels were generally honest (A Martin guitar is a Martin guitar, and can be valued fairly easily). With violins, there were many thousands of makers, and a long history of false labels. When I took one of my violins (a 1797 J.G. Ficker) in for appraisal to a reputable Seattle shop, they consulted huge reference books with information on signatures, labels, maker's history....a very interesting process. They ultimately provided documentation of every aspect including every repair that had been made over the years. An old violin wears its history...... The bow, 75 years newer, was still valued in the $500 range, and needed a whole different set of reference books; so you want to have the bows looked at by a professional also.[/QUOTE]
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