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Carl C. Holzapfel

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£1,308

Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.9 cm Baltimore, 1935 July 2011 £661
Violin 35.9 cm Baltimore, 1910 c. July 2010 £1,308
Violin Baltimore, 1925 October 2004 £445
Violin 1916 October 2003 £763
Violin 1938 October 2003 £1,109
Violin 1905 c. May 2003 £441
Biographies

John Dilworth

HOLZAPFEL, Carl C. Born 1874 Illingen Germany, died 1963 Baltimore, Maryland USA. Pupil of Carl Scheytt. Emigrated to the USA 1892. Established in Baltimore from 1898. Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri models with appropriate shades of varnish. Local materials, occasionally with five-stranded purfling. Very prolific maker. Also made bows and plucked instruments. Some instruments branded on pegbox: ‘C. Holzapfel’ Carl C. Holzapfel / Anno 1928 / Baltimore. Md.

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