Erno SZEP

Highest auction price

£2,280

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	Labelled Keszetette: Szep Erno, Debrecen, 1955. evben. Op. 137, good condition	Mon 1st June 2020	£2,280
Violin	35.8 cm Debreczen, 1946	Sun 1st June 2008	£2,061

Biographies

John Dilworth

SZÉP, Ernö Born 1913, d. after 1973 Debrecen Hungary. Self-taught maker until apprenticed to L. Tonté c.1936. Established independently 1939. National Service 1942 for the railway but continued making violins in free time. Stradivari-derived personal models. Clean accurate work. Pale yellow-brown spirit varnish. Signed internally: ‘Készitette / Szép Ernö / Debrecen, 1946. Op.119’. Printed label: Készitette: Szép Ernö / Hangverseny hegedü Készitö Mester / Debrecen, 1946 Op.119. [Benedek]