Claude Victor RAMBAUX

Highest auction price achieved
£ 8333.00

By Cecie Stainer

b. Feb. 25, 1806, at Darney in the Vosges; d. June 25, 1871, at Mirecourt. In 1820 was apprenticed to L. Moitessier in Mirecourt, and remained with him till July 12, 1824. Then went to Caen and worked under Thibout, 1824-27, and then to Paris, where, from Aug. 22, 1827, till June 7, 1838, he worked with Gand. In 1838 he started his own business at 18, faubourg Poissonniere. The new instruments that he made show great ability, but he chiefly devoted himself, with infinite patience and care, to repairing old instruments ; he was especially skilful in "cutting down" the old Italian violoncellos, which vary much in pattern, and generally have to be reduced in size to that of the Stradivari model, so as to meet modern requirements. After nineteen years' work in Paris, he retired to Mirecourt in June, 1857, having gained silver medals at the 1844 and 1849 Exhibitions, and the first class medal at the 1835 Paris Exhibition. Label: " Claude Victor Rambaux Brevete a Paris, 1846, C.V.R." He had two sons, but neither of them became violin makers.

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin 35.7 cm Paris, 1848 Fri 1st June 07 £ 6814.00
Violin Paris, 1840 Wed 1st June 05 £ 3956.00
Cello 1854 Sun 1st June 03 £ 8333.00
Violin 1846 Sat 1st June 02 £ 1021.00
Violin 1846 Fri 1st March 96 £ 2760.00
Violin 1846 Sun 1st October 95 £ 2070.00
Cello 1861 Thu 1st September 88 £ 2310.00
Violin 1869 Wed 1st April 87 £ 3080.00

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