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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Sanctus Seraphin Violin Comparison


Maker's labels: Top left is Dad's violin; remaining three photos are from internet. It would appear that Dad's is the more authentic of the two, with Sanctus Seraphin Utinensis (Santo Serafino of Udine) on the same line and Fecit Venetijs Anno 1742 ( Made in Venice Year 1742) on the second line. Whereas for other violin there are three lines. It is obvious that whoever made this label did not have the benefit of three years of Latin study, otherwise he would know that "Utinensis Fecit" doesn't make sense. An additional point of note: On my father's violin label the last two digits ("42") of the year 1742 are handwritten, whereas in the other, all four digits of 1730 seem to be printed. It is believed that the authentic violin maker would glue the label inside the body first when it was being assembled and after the violin was finally completed he would use a pen to enter the year it was made. This process was confirmed to me by Privy Councillor M.L. Usni Pramoj, who also believes that Dad's violin is the authentic one and not a copy.

1 Comments:

At Thursday, March 10, 2022, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have the same. Did you ever find out if it was authentic or not?

 

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