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Dunfermline School

James Morrison

Dunfermline, b. 1827

1890 Dunfermline, Scotland UK. Amateur maker. Around 40 instruments on Stradivari-derived model. Some with bird’s-eye maple with fir or red pine fronts. Red oil varnish. Manuscript label: James Morrison / Maker. Dunfermline 1892 — John Dilworth

Worked Dunfermline

Biographies

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John Dilworth+

MORRISON, James Born 1827, Worked circa. 1890 Dunfermline, Scotland UK. Amateur maker. Around 40 instruments on Stradivari-derived model. Some with bird’s-eye maple with fir or red pine fronts. Red oil varnish. Manuscript label: James Morrison / Maker. Dunfermline 1892

William Meredith Morris+

An amateur maker of average attainments.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+

Ursprünglich Arbeiter in einer Weberei, beschäftigte er sich mit dem Geigenmachen und hat eine Anzahl guter Violinen nach Stradivari gemacht und rothen Öllack verwendet.

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