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Hans Franze

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£936

Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.8 cm Basel, 1935 Sun 1st July 2007 £841
Violin 35.8 cm Basel, 1935 Sat 1st July 2006 £936
Biographies

John Dilworth

FRANZE, Hans Born 1890 Leipzig Germany, died 1950 Basel Switzerland. Trained with M. Schmidt in Marneukirchen. Worked for Ackermann & Lesser and H. Schlesinger in Dresden, Kessler in Würzburg, E. Helt in Cologne, E. Gartner in Stuttgart, and P. Meinel in Basel. Chief repairer and maker for Hug & Co. in Basel from 1920. Fine work modelled on a 1714 Stradivari violin. H. Franke anno 1921 / Geigenbau-Werkstatte / Hug & Co. Basel

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