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[stephen maloney]

http://www.ebay.com/...#ht_25755wt_934

Interesting that an orchestra player could afford so many violins; must have lived out of a cardboard box and eaten ramen noodles...any thoughts on this one?

[Jeremyamoto]

Well, the ebony edge protector is a Hungarian trait, but it looks like a factory fiddle to me.

[Addie]

Faruzi Francesco, Venice 1853. Repaired excellently instruments by old masters: few of his own are known.
Jalovec

Neck angle looks low?

[jacobsaunders]

Straightforward Schönbach box

[lyndon]

another what looks to be freshly printed label, eboy thought hed pull the wool over our eyes by using brown paper, i cant imagine any 1900 italian violin would have varnish fake antiqueing like this one

[bean_fidhleir]

There's a lot of toner on that label! I bet that if we could get down near the surface and glance the light off it we'd see a visible thickness. (I'm pretty sure the paper isn't brown, though, Lyndon. It looks more like the lighting is off, given the red cast to that yellow varnish)

I bet, too, that an Italian maker would put "Venezia" on his labels, not "Venedig".

[luthier]

Venedig is the German word for Venezia. Any doubts?