Carlton F. STANLEY
Highest auction price
£2,247
Auction price history
Type | Details | Sold | Price |
---|---|---|---|
Violin | 35.7 cm 1946 [Made for "Rudolph Wurlitzer Co."] | Tue 1st December 2009 | £1,693 |
Viola | 40.6 cm Newton, 1947 | Thu 1st May 2008 | £2,247 |
Violin | 35.4 cm "adjusted & varnished by Rudolph Wurlitzer.." | Thu 1st May 2008 | £482 |
Violin | 1938 | Wed 1st October 2003 | £294 |
Violin | 1931 | Sun 1st October 2000 | £1,450 |
Violin | 1929 | Fri 1st May 1998 | £1,129 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
STANLEY, Carlton F. died 1948 Newton, Massachusetts USA. Pupil and assistant of his uncle Freelan Oscar, below, from 1924. Previously worked in Estes Park and Denver, Colorado. Stradivari, Guarneri, and some Guadagnini models. Credited with over 600 violins, violas, and cellos, most sold through Wurlitzer’s. Good professional work with commercial oil varnishes. Some are said to have been supplied unvarnished to Wurlitzer, to be finished by Roy Morgan in Cincinnati using formulas of Louis Condax. Stanley / Newton Mass. / 19.. No.. C. F. Stanley / Newton. Mass. / 193.. No..
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