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Ernest TORR

Highest auction price

£597

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin Labelled Ernest Torr, Liverpool 1924 Sat 1st June 2024 £414
Violin Liverpool, 1924 [Possibly by] Mon 1st March 2004 £597
Biographies

John Dilworth

TORR, Ernest Born 1871, d. after 1927 Liverpool UK. Self-taught maker from 1903. Worked for G. Byrom in Liverpool 1920-1921. Completed over 100 violins, seven violas, and five cellos on Guarneri, Stradivari, and personal models. Varnish of orange and red-brown colour. Some with antique shaded finish. Ernest Torr / Liverpool, 1927 [Henley]

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