George Gemünder - An Historic 19th-Century Violin

Lot 154
George Gemünder
German/American (1816-1899)
An Historic 19th-Century Violin (1858)
Spruce, maple, ebony
23 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches
labeled

Description:
A nineteenth-century American acoustic violin by master luthier George Gemünder, crafted in 1858, featuring an original paper label with a decorative scrollwork border pasted to the internal back plate and visible through the left sound-hole inscribed \”George Gemünder, / New York 1858.\”, constructed with a one-piece carved maple back displaying a soft horizontal curl, matching figured maple ribs, a fine-grained spruce top table, traditionally positioned sound-holes, inlaid perimeter purfling, an ebony fingerboard, and a traditionally carved scroll terminating at the pegbox

Provenance:
From a Private New York Collection

Good stable condition; well-preserved internal paper label displaying expected age-toning and silvering to the paper substrate with minor localized wood grain texture showing through, superficial varnish checking across the exterior sound-hole margins, and extensive historic wood oxidation to the internal chamber surfaces consistent with age

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