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Marengo Romano RINALDI

Highest auction price

£30,000

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.6 cm 1900 c. [Atributed to]	Fri 1st October 2010	£6,250
Violin	35.5 cm Turin, 1900	Fri 1st October 2010	£30,000
Violin	35.5 cm Turin, 1900	Mon 1st February 2010	£10,776
Violin	36.0 cm Possibly Italian [Attributed to]	Wed 1st October 2008	£3,218
Violin	1900	Mon 1st October 2001	£21,986
Violin	1890	Sun 1st July 1990	£4,840
Viola	38.7 cm 1891	Thu 1st March 1990	£2,420
Viola	42.5 cm 1892	Fri 1st November 1985	£9,900
Violin	1899	Wed 1st June 1983	£2,530
Violin	1898	Mon 1st November 1982	£2,200
Violin	1890	Thu 1st April 1982	£2,310

Biographies

John Dilworth

MARENGO-RINALDI, Romano Born 1866 Alba, died 1926 Turin Italy. Born Romano Giuseppe Secundo Marengo. Trained as a woodcarver. Pupil of E. Marchetti in Turin. Took over the shop of B. Gioffredo-Rinaldi 1888, and from 1890 acquired the rights to the name Rinaldi, Rinaldi’s widow Paola being still active in the business. The shop thereafter known as Marengo-Rinaldi. After Paola’s death in 1905, Marengo seems to have reverted to his own name. A businessman and entrepreneur rather than a practical maker, it is not clear how much of his own labelled work is his own or that of employed or outside agents. Oddone, Guerra and Fagnola were almost certainly contributors as was his son Edoardo Vittorio. Medals awarded in Turin 1898 and 1911, Paris 1900, and Rome 1918. His best work is of very fine quality, on a disciplined Stradivari model with fine clear golden-orange varnish. Other examples show rather coarser workmanship. Marengo Romano-Rinaldi / di Alba, fece in Torino Anno 1900 [Blot IV]