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    Amati > Makers Archive > D > Alexander Despines

    Turin School

    Alexander Despines

    Turin

    Worked Turin
    Made Violin

    Auction price history

    Highest auction price

    £5,750
    Type Details Sold Price
    Violin May 2014 £5,750

    Biographies

    The overview above is drawn from the following published accounts. Read them in the original:

    Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

    Schüler von Pressenda, Gatte der Sängerin Mme Despines. Die Geschichte
    eines von ihm nach Omobeno Stradivari gemachten Violoncelles erzählt Alfrede
    Piatti in den Violin Times (deutsch in de Wit’s Z.) No. 31, 1895. Er baute nach
    Guarneri. Auf seinen Zetteln soll er sich auch D’Espin genannt haben.

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