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Richard Benjamin Sweet

b. 1894

1925 Springfield, Illinois USA. Copies of the 1722 Stradivari ‘Joachim’ violin with red-brown varnish. Richard B. Sweet Violin / Maker and Repairer / Springfield, Illinois, 1929 — John Dilworth

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SWEET, Richard Benjamin Born 1894 East St Louis, Illinois, Worked circa. 1925 Springfield, Illinois USA. Copies of the 1722 Stradivari ‘Joachim’ violin with red-brown varnish. Richard B. Sweet Violin / Maker and Repairer / Springfield, Illinois, 1929

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