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Albin WILFER

Highest auction price

£6,900

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.8 cm Leipzig, 1922 Tue 1st November 2011 £813
Cello 1913 Wed 1st November 2000 £6,900
Violin 1931 Sat 1st June 1991 £2,310
Biographies

John Dilworth

Albin Born 1870 Bad Elster, died 1939 Leipzig Germany. Descended from a line of amateur luthiers. Pupil of E. Weller in Markneukirchen. Subsequently head of the workshop of J. H. Zimmermann in Moscow from 1897. Established independently in Dufourstrasse, Leipzig from 1898. Classical Italian models and his own personal pattern. Good varnish and materials. Professional workmanship. Branded: ‘*A*W*’ Albin Wilfer / Geigenbauer in Leipzig / 1899

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