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William Reid Watt

b. 1885

1924-1926 Birmingham UK. Engineer and amateur maker. Originally self-taught. Later learned with Frank Howard. Guarneri-derived model; others on a 1707 Stradivari pattern with orange or red-brown varnish. William Reid Watt, Liutaro + / fece in Birmingham. L’anno 1926 — John Dilworth

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John Dilworth+

WATT, William Reid Born 1885 Aberdeen, Scotland, Worked circa. 1924-1926 Birmingham UK. Engineer and amateur maker. Originally self-taught. Later learned with Frank Howard. Guarneri-derived model; others on a 1707 Stradivari pattern with orange or red-brown varnish. William Reid Watt, Liutaro + / fece in Birmingham. L’anno 1926

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