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Nicolas Duchesne

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John Dilworth

DUCHESNE, Nicolas Worked circa. 1742-1780 Mirecourt France. Instruments branded and signed ‘à Paris’, but this was a fiction common amongst Mirecourt makers. His shop was known as ‘A la Ville de Padoue’. Slender model with flat arch and oversized scroll. Extended ‘f’ holes with distinctive central nick. Dull yellow varnish. Branded: ‘Nicolaus Duchesne A Paris’

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