A marketplace for the future: dendrochronology, cataloguing, violin identification
John Lott II, c. 1860
Probably Gaffino, c. 1745
John Barrett, c. 1725A dynamic marketplace
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16871735
reading the rings
their widths, year by year
against master chronologies
Coherence 0.72, t 11.3 at 1735. Same tree as
Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Milan, c. 1720t 11.3
Nicolò Gagliano, Naples, 1745t 10.4
Date the wood, not the label
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Which f-hole was cut in Cremona?
Cremona, c. 1650
Nicolò Amati
London, c. 1860
John Lott II
Cremona, c. 1650Nicolò Amati
London, c. 1860John Lott II
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