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Johann Gottfried Hamm

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£2,750

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	36.1 cm Neukirchen, 1797	February 2010	£2,117
Violin	35.6 cm Neukirchen, 1812	November 2008	£2,284
Violin	36.0 cm Markneukirchen, 1764 (scroll possibly later)	October 2007	£2,427
Viola	39.3 cm Markneukirchen, 1800 c.	September 2007	£2,160
Violin	35.8 cm 1800 c. [Attributed to]	September 2007	£1,080
Violin	36.0 cm 1780 c.	July 2007	£1,177
Violin	36.0 cm 1780 c.	July 2006	£1,311
Violin		April 2006	£1,101
Violin	Markneukirchen, 1779	November 2005	£632
Viola	39.2 cm Markneukirchen, 1800 c.	May 2005	£1,560
Violin	1764	October 2003	£1,866
Viola	1780 29.8 cm	November 2001	£470
Violin	1790	November 1996	£697
Violin	1780-99	November 1992	£1,869
Violin	1800 c.	November 1992	£2,750
Violin	1790 c.	November 1989	£506
Viola	39.4 cm 1780 c.	July 1989	£550
Violin	1818	June 1987	£550
Violin	1800 c.	January 1987	£374

Biographies

John Dilworth George Hart Cecie Stainer Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

John Dilworth

HAMM, Johann Gottfried Born 1744, died 1817 Markneukirchen Germany. Became a Master of the Violin Makers’ Guild 1764. Regarded as the best maker of the family. Indicated his debt to Rome and Cremona on his label, but there is no evidence that he had any experience in those cities. Stainer model with medium-high arch and deeply channelled edge. Very individual head: oval volutes deeply undercut and extended last turn into very reduced eye, surmounting swan-necked pegbox. Sometimes inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl around the edges. Varnish of variable shades. Good materials. Branded internally: ‘I*G*H’ and occasionally: ‘Hamm’. Printed label: Johann Gottfried Hamm / Instrumenten Macher / Stadt Neukirchen bey Adorf / im Voigtlande Fecit Ao 1810 Johann Gottfried Hamm, / Prope violino correspondent / Romani Cremona Ao 17.. [Hamma]