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Arthur Cotton Lancaster

Highest auction price

£976

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin On the back painted in oils is a portrait of Wallace Hartley (violinist conductor of the Titanic band) Sat 1st June 2024 £976
Violin 1896 Sat 1st September 1990 £242
Biographies

John Dilworth

LANCASTER, Arthur Cotton Born 1869, Worked circa. 1890-1925 Colne, Lancashire UK. Stradivari and Guarneri models. Decent work with good materials and varnish. One violin made to commemorate the Titanic in 1912 with an oil portrait of Wallace Hartley, the leader of the ship’s orchestra, on the back.

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