Edmund Aireton

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	Inscribed internally on the back Made by Ed. Aireton. 1761	October 2023	£8,400
Violin	35.0 cm London 1738 c. [Probably by]	March 2009	£1,053
Violin	1770	November 2001	£3,000
Violin	1800 c.	March 1994	£1,955
Violin	1757	March 1994	£1,955
Cello	1767 c.	July 1993	£8,625
Viola	38.6 cm 1932	March 1989	£2,057
Cello	1790 c.	November 1988	£6,380
Violin	1761	November 1988	£6,160
Viola	38.6 cm 1782	October 1984	£1,540
Viola	40.0 cm 17--	June 1984	£2,038
Cello	1757	November 1982	£3,740

John Dilworth

AIRETON, Edmund Born circa. 1720, died 1807 London UK. Worked in Piccadilly, and from 1805 in Hog Lane (present day Crown Street, Soho). Stainer or Amati model. Employed initially by Peter Wamsley from c.1735. Rather poor yellow varnish but excellent craftsmanship, similar to Wamsley’s pupil Thomas Smith. An excellent five-string cello of small size is labelled and dated 1776. His signature or label appears in instruments labelled and sold by several London makers and dealers, including Peter Wamsley, Norris & Barnes, and John Johnson. Made by / Edmund Aireton / London, 1755

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Angeblich der Sohn eines gleichnamigen, schon 1735 vorkommenden Geigenmachers und ein Verwandter des Kirchenkomponisten Edmund Ayreton (1734 bis 1808), der unter Händel Hilfsorganist der Westminster-Abtei war. Edm. A. gilt als ein Schüler Peter Wamsley’s und ahmte Stainer und Amati nach. Die Arbeit ist gut, sein gelbbrauner Lack dagegen stumpf und der Ton unbedeutend. Da er viel für Norris & Barnes arbeitete, kommen verhältnissmässig selten Geigen mit seinem Zettel vor, eine solche aus dem Jahre 1755 war 1872 in South Kensington ausgestellt.

George Hart

Was originally employed in the workshop of Peter Wamsley, at the ” Harp and Hautboy,” in Piccadilly. He made a great many excellent Violins and Violoncellos, and chiefly copied Amati. Varnish of fair quality; colour yellow. He died at the advanced age of 80, in the year 1807.

William Meredith Morris

His best instruments are on the Amati model. He also made many violins on the Stainer model, and a few, of inferior make, on the Stradivari model — a fact which proves that the model of the great Italian was little appreciated in England and not thought worthy of the best effort at the time. The workmanship is good, and the tone of a fair quality. The varnish is a spirit one, of a lustreless yellow. It has been surmised that a workman of the same name, who was working with Peter Wamsley in 1735, was his father.

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£8,625

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John Dilworth

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

George Hart

William Meredith Morris

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