William WALKER

Highest auction price

£4,500

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin		Mon 12th May 2014	£4,500
Violin	35.6 cm Mid Calder 1921 nÂ°125	Wed 1st December 2010	£1,680
Violin	35.6 cm 1908	Wed 1st November 2006	£965
Violin	35.5 cm Mid Calder, 1908 [Attributed to]	Thu 1st June 2006	£840
Violin	1922	Mon 1st September 2003	£1,998
Violin	1904	Fri 1st February 2002	£1,850
Violin	1906	Wed 1st June 1994	£1,725
Violin	1911	Tue 1st June 1993	£1,100
Violin	1905	Thu 1st November 1990	£1,455
Violin	1904	Fri 1st January 1988	£720
Violin	1906	Sun 1st March 1987	£385
Violin	1911	Tue 1st June 1982	£453
Violin	1921	Sat 1st March 1980	£281

Biographies

John Dilworth

WALKER, William Born 1859 Mid Calder, Midlothian, died 1943 Broxburn, Scotland UK. Hairdresser and self-taught violin maker. From reading Heron-Allen Violin Making, as it was and is produced over 200 instruments on Stradivari and Guarneri models. Very fine work of a professional standard. Distinctive scroll modelled on Bergonzi: wide projecting eye and narrow first turn of the volute. Fine materials. Rich orange to red-brown varnish. Used commercial varnishes on early work but developed his own copal oil recipe coloured with alizarine pigments. William Walker. / Mid Calder / 1922 / no.130 William Walker/ Fecit Broxburn / Anno 1929 [Rattray]