Janos SPIEGEL

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£6,008

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.6 cm Budapest, 1953	Wed 1st December 2010	£1,243
Violin	35.5 cm Budapest, 1916	Fri 1st October 2010	£6,008
Violin	35.6 cm Budapest, 1924	Thu 1st May 2008	£4,490
Violin	35.7 cm Budapest, 1924	Tue 1st May 2007	£2,736
Violin	Budapest, 1923	Tue 1st November 2005	£2,605
Violin	Budapest, 1916	Tue 1st November 2005	£3,360
Violin	Budapest, 1924	Sat 1st May 2004	£2,895
Violin	1936	Wed 1st October 2003	£3,732
Violin	1907	Tue 1st May 2001	£4,624
Viola	41.9 cm	Sun 1st November 1992	£3,300
Cello		Mon 1st July 1991	£3,850

Biographies

John Dilworth

SPIEGEL, János Born 1876 Sopron, died 1956 Budapest Hungary. Apprenticed to P. Pilát. Worked for W. J. Schunda 1896-1898 and for R. Laumann 1898-1900. Established independently in Budapest 1903. Prolific maker. Produced about 600 instruments including 80 cellos, assisted by various craftsmen in his shop, the majority exported to the USA. Succeeded by his employee J. Csapkovits. Stradivari- and Guarneri-derived models. Neat and precise work. Red-brown varnish used up to c.1920; thereafter mainly orange shades. Interior work in the Hungarian manner with pointed linings let into all the blocks. Branded internally: ‘Spiegel Janós / Budapest’ . Manuscript labels: Spiegel Jánoos (sic) / Budapest, 19..