T. E. Purday

Highest auction price

£7,150

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin		Sat 1st March 1997	£575
Cello		Thu 1st March 1990	£7,150

Biographies

John Dilworth Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

John Dilworth

PURDAY, T. E. Worked circa. 1800-1895 London UK. Partnerships with Button and later with B. S. Fendt. Purday and Button were the successors to Thompson at 75 St Paul’s Churchyard, sellers of music scores. The later business in partnership with Fendt from about 1846 was at 50 St Paul’s Churchyard and took over the shop of Clementi & Co. Early instruments are coarse trade work, often unpurfled. Many appear to have been imported from Mirecourt, and possibly later varnished by Fendt. Fendt himself produced instruments of first quality for the company. T. E. Purday / Late Clementi & Co. / 1838. Purdy and Fendt / Manufacturers of / Violins, ‘cellos, etc. / St. Paul’s Churchyard [BVMA]