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John Walter SKINNER

Highest auction price

£220

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 1921 Mon 1st July 1991 £220
Violin 1910 Thu 1st September 1983 £154
Biographies

John Dilworth

SKINNER, John Walter Born 1868 Sheffield, d. after 1930 Dawlish, Devon UK. Apprenticed as a cabinet maker. Worked as a silversmith. Amateur violin maker in retirement from 1908. Established professionally from 1923 in Psalter Lane, Sheffield. Moved to Dawlish 1930. Guarneri, Stradivari, and personal models. John Walter Skinner / Violin Maker Sheffield / No. 5 A.D. 1920

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