Samuel Jansen Miller
Highest auction price
£277
Auction price history
Type | Details | Sold | Price |
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Violin | 1926 | Wed 1st October 2003 | £277 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
MILLER, Samuel Jansen Born 1867, Worked circa. 1884-1931 Dryden, New York USA. Self-taught through reading Heron Allen’s Violin Making as it was and is. Established professionally from 1884 in Dryden. Made about 200 instruments modelled on Stradivari ‘Alard’ and ‘Messie’ violins; also Guarneri models. Variable workmanship. Orange to deep red-brown varnish with local and recovered woods. Inscribed internally: ‘Jansen Miller. M.E.H.T. 1927’. Printed label: Violin No 150 / S. Jansen Miller / Dryden, N.Y. U.S.A. / Copy Alard Stradivarius
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