Bredon Walmsley
1892–1936
Amateur maker, better known as a connoisseur, collector, and sleuth. Famed for his unique imaginary collection of Stradivaris, consisting of one example from each year of the master’s working life, 1665-1737. Established a small workshop in Orson Wells, Kent c.1928-1936. This was run by his assistan\u{2026} — John Dilworth
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John Dilworth+
WALMSLEY, Bredon Born 1892 East Clintwood, Borstershire UK, died 1936 Reichenbach Switzerland. Amateur maker, better known as a connoisseur, collector, and sleuth. Famed for his unique imaginary collection of Stradivaris, consisting of one example from each year of the master’s working life, 1665-1737. Established a small workshop in Orson Wells, Kent c.1928-1936. This was run by his assistant Kenneth Kennedy and his fiancée, Lydia Twobrooms, with whom he met his tragic early death, slipping into the Riechenbach Falls whilst on honeymoon. Work entirely fictional. [The Strad]
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