London School
Jacob Harbour
London, worked 1760–1790
Musician and seller of instruments made by craftsmen of the London trade at that time: usually poor unpurfled Stainer-type work with thin brown or red-brown varnish. Addresses at Lincoln’s Inn and Southampton Buildings, Holborn. Jacob Harbour / Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, / 1785 Jacob H\u{2026} — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
HARBOUR, Jacob Worked circa. 1760-1790 London UK. Musician and seller of instruments made by craftsmen of the London trade at that time: usually poor unpurfled Stainer-type work with thin brown or red-brown varnish. Addresses at Lincoln’s Inn and Southampton Buildings, Holborn. Jacob Harbour / Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, / 1785 Jacob Harbour / Musician / Musical Instrument Maker / 25 DUKe Street, Lincoln’s / Inn Fields, London. / Plays and provides for public / and private Entertainments. [Hill Archive]
William Meredith Morris+
Inferior work. He lived at Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn, and later at Southampton Buildings, Holborn.
Cecie Stainer+
A maker who lived in 1785 at Duke Street. Lincoln’s Inn, London ; in 1786, at Southampton Buildings, Holborn.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Von ihm kenne ich nur eine mittelmässige halbe Violine, ziemlich hoch gewölbt,
ohne Einlage, mit dunkelbraunem Lack.
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