American Violin, Jerome Bonaparte Squier, Boston, 1896

Description:

American Violin, Jerome Bonaparte Squier, Boston, 1896, labeled MAGGINI./MADE BY/J. BONAPARTE SQUIER,/BOSTON, MASS./in the year A.D., 1896/No. 354, also bearing the inscribed label This American top is from the old/Ashburton Church, Beacon Hill, Boston/built in the Eighteenth Century./The back is of Italian growth, and/more than 100 years old./J. Bonaparte Squier, length of back 357 mm.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Partially reglued back center seam, wing crack.


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