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William Smith

worked 1796

Amateur maker. Small viola of coarse workmanship with a factory made French head, unpurfled. Branded on back: ‘Smith’. Signed internally: ‘William Smith Maker Eyam / N112 1796 / Derbyshire’. — John Dilworth

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John Dilworth+

SMITH, William Worked circa. 1796 Eyam, Deryshire UK. Amateur maker. Small viola of coarse workmanship with a factory made French head, unpurfled. Branded on back: ‘Smith’. Signed internally: ‘William Smith Maker Eyam / N112 1796 / Derbyshire’.

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