French violin by and labelled Ch.J.B. Collin-Mezin, Luthier,...

Hammer

£1,150

French violin by and labelled Ch.J.B. Collin-Mezin, Luthier, Grand Prix-Exposition Universelle 1900, Paris, Modele 'Selection' no. 371 and inscribed on the label no. 28...1924; also labelled to the inside back on the treble side Lutherie Artistique Entierement Feite á la Main avec de vieux bois and signed in pencil to the inside back below, the two piece back of very faint medium curl with similar wood to the head, the table of a medium width grain and the varnish of a reddish-brown colour on a golden ground, 14 1/8", 35.90cm
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** The neck and head in need of re-gluing to the body and the fingerboard re-gluing to the neck