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Luigi Ionata

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John Dilworth

IONATA, Luigi Born 1883, Worked Messina, Sicily Italy. Violinist in the cathedral orchestra. Violin maker from 1906. Succumbed to blindness in 1939. Fine golden-yellow spirit varnish. Inscribed beneath the varnish below the back button: ‘L. Ionata’. Manuscript label: Prof. Luigi Ionata fecit / Messina, 1937

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