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Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner

Highest auction price

£1,662

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.6 cm Markneukirchen, 1794. Fri 1st April 2011 £1,662
Violin 36.0 cm 1800 c. [Workshop of] Sun 1st March 2009 £1,431
Violin 35.7 cm 1790 c. Mon 1st May 2006 £613
Biographies

John Dilworth

Johann Gottlob Born 1753, died 1823. Good workmanship on elongated Stainer model. High arch. Characteristically Saxon head with exaggerated tail behind the eye of the volute. Golden-brown varnish. Credited with some more developed and Stradivari-like instruments towards the end of his life. Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner / Jacobus Stainer in Absahm prope / oeni pontum anno 1778 Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner, / prope Violino car Respontent / Romani Cremona 1799 Aus / J. G. Pfretzschners / Musikalisch Instrumenthandlung / in Neukirchen bei Adorf

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