Jackson Gilden Violin Company Violin

A Jackson-Gulden Violin Company violin featuring a Novotny fingerboard, patented July 16, 1929. Columbus, OH. Model "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 17." LOB 35.5cm.

The Meisel Collection. This instrument is being sold from The Meisel Collection assembled over a period of forty years by an accomplished attorney from Princeton, New Jersey. The owner traveled the world in search of rare, interesting, and handsome instruments to fill a collection that until now was displayed in his beautiful Princeton home.

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