August Starck
1871–1919
Brother and pupil of Hermann Stark, below. Worked in Basle for the Meinel-Grunwald business, Established independently in Strasburg from 1899. Influential maker in the region and examiner for the guild of luthiers. Stradivari and Guarneri models with own varnish of various appropriate colours. A. St\u{2026} — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
August Born 1871 Rohrbach, died 1919 Strasbourg . Brother and pupil of Hermann Stark, below. Worked in Basle for the Meinel-Grunwald business, Established independently in Strasburg from 1899. Influential maker in the region and examiner for the guild of luthiers. Stradivari and Guarneri models with own varnish of various appropriate colours. A. Stark / Saiteninstrumentenbauer / Strassburg i./ E. Anno..
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Schüler seines Bruders Hermann St., arbeitete fast vier Jahre als Gehilfe bei Meinel-Grunwald in Basel und eröffnete am 1. October 1899 in Strassburg seine eigene Werkstatt als Geigenmacher und Reparateur. Er ahmt das Stradivari und Guarneri-Modell nach und verwendet einen Lack eigener Zusammensetzung. Er führt das Wappen von Cremona als Schutzmarke.
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