George Duncan

John Dilworth

DUNCAN, George Born 1855 Kingston-on-Spey, Scotland UK. Pupil and successor to Walter Plain. Worked in Glasgow from 1875 at 21 Brunswick Street, previously the premises of Walter Plain. Subsequently at 33 Queen Street. Won gold medal at the London Inventions Exhibition 1885, over the silver medal awarded to Bela Szepessy. Emigrated to Canada 1892. Very disciplined work on Stradivari and Guarneri models, the arching (like Plain’s) has a distinct flatness to the centre bouts, which rise rather abruptly from deeply sunk edges. Fine textured oil varnish of various tints, sometimes shaded and slightly ‘distressed’ in imitation of age. No. 31. Made by George Duncan / Glasgow. 18..

William Meredith Morris

He was born Jan. 17, 1855, and emigrated to America in 1892. His instruments from about 1883 on are magnificent. They are on the model of Stradivari and Guarneri, varnished with a beautiful oil varnish usually of a golden orange red tint. The wood in some specimens is of a broad figure in the back, and of a medium grain in the front table. The tone is large, rich, and free. He was awarded the gold medal for an exhibit of two violins at the London Exhibition of Inventions and Music in 1885. These two violins were of a beautiful appearance, though I did not have the pleasure to try their tone. Duncan is a born artist, and his work will improve with age and become valuable. It is to be hoped that his talents will be appreciated on the other side of the Atlantic to the extent they deserve. Label : —

NO, 37 MADE BY GEORGE DUNCAN, GLASGOW, 1884

Cecie Stainer

A maker in Glasgow about 1875-87.

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Er war zuerst Tischler und eröffnete 1875 in Glasgow seine Werkstatt als Geigenmacher. Er arbeitete nach verschiedenen Modellen und verwandte einen guten Öllack. Seine Geigen sind sehr gut und tadellos gemacht. 1885 erhielt er auf der Inventions Exhibition in London eine goldene Medaille; eine silberne, die er 1886 in Edinburgh zuerkannt erhielt, wies er zurück. 1892 wanderte er nach Amerika aus.