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[Omobono]

Here are a couple of interesting fiddles worth discussing, don't you think
as a study in style and evolution in design.
Some of you may have spotted them too.

[Jeremyamoto]

The left one looks like a Joseph filius and son collaboration. Is the right a Del Gesu? Haven't seen that one before.

[Omobono]

The left one looks like a Joseph filius and son collaboration. Is the right a Del Gesu? Haven't seen that one before.

Both are featured in the Strad magazine in the past 12 months as lesser-known 'del Gesù', one from 1728-30 & the other from 1732.

[Bernie R]

I am completely hopeless at identifying fiddles and assessing the workmanship, but even to my eyes these look surprisingly different.

[bmccarthy]

Great story behind that 1732 del Gesù in a popular publication this month. Only recently rediscovered after 80 years in the vaults of a Museum in Argentina.

[Addie]

Right one reminds me of the Plowden?

[Walter O'Bannon]

A big change in just a few years. The 1728-30 one reminds me quite a bit of the Folinari's pattern, but I can't find a good picture to compare. The corners seem much more delicate though.

[Bernie R]

http://www.beinfushi...linfolinari.php

[Omobono]

A big change in just a few years.

Yes, it seems so.... (& here is your Folinari 1725)



In some ways it seems a bit of a throw-back to Rogeri with that narrow waist and prominant corners.

The scrolls too are an interesting study.