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Nicolaus Dopfer

Highest auction price

£470

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 1778 Wed 16th July 2003 £470
Biographies

John Dilworth

DÖPFER, Nicolaus Born 1714 Füssen, died 1788 Mainz Germany. Father-in-law of Martin Diehl and Jacob Steininger, and effectively the founder of the Mainz school of violin makers. Appointed instrument maker to the Court in Mainz. Work in the Klotz style: small edges, Staineresque arching and soundhole model, rather swan-necked pegbox topped with small scroll having extended last turn. Neatly finished and precise, but the varnish is thin and not transparent, dark red to almost black-brown. Violas very worthwhile. Cellos with very long centre bouts and small corners. Printed label in gothic type: Nicolaus Döpfer / Kurfsl-Maynzischer Hoflauten und / Geigen-macher 17.. [Michels]

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