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Joseph Alexander RIEDEL

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£187

Type Details Sold Price
Violin 1861 Fri 1st October 1993 £187
Biographies

John Dilworth

RIEDEL, Joseph Alexander Born 1810, died 1866 Brojce Poland. Cabinet maker. Self-taught violin maker from 1850. Worked at Miedzyrzec Podlaski 1855 and Gdansk 1863. Highly prolific. Said to have made 18 instruments every week. Early examples on Tyrolean model. Later followed classical Cremonese patterns. Decent work but with impoverished yellow varnish. Generally good materials. Manuscript labels up to 1850; thereafter printed. Generally added an imitation label of the instrument being copied beneath his own. Joseph Riedel in Meseritz / nach Guarnerius, a 1858. No. 176 Josephus Riedel in Danzig / imitabat Anno 18.. Repariert von Josef Riedel / in Brätz 1855

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