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Horace William Petherick

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John Dilworth

PETHERICK, Horace William Born 1839, died 1919 Croydon, Surrey UK. Artist, connoisseur, and writer. Made a small number of violins on a personal model. Author of regular essays in ‘The Strad’ magazine, also The History of the Violin (1893), Antonio Stradivari (1900), Joseph Guarnerius – His Work and His Master (1906), and Repairing and Restoration of Violins (1915). Horace Petherick Fecit in Croydon. 1891-3

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