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Stanley Holmes

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John Dilworth

HOLMES, Stanley Born 1878, Worked from 1924 Liverpool UK. Self-taught amateur maker. Stradivari derived model. Commercial ‘Rowley’ varnish used initially; later produced his own formulation. ‘The Reverie’ / Ad Gloriam Dei fecit / Stanley Holmes / Liverpool. A.D. 1921.

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