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Stef - Posted - 08/17/2009: 09:26:59
I'm looking for info about Johann Schack (umlaut on a), who may have carved my violin from Schonbach (umlaut on o) . The violin has the head of T.G. Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia, on the scroll and it also features carvings of Wagner and the Czech lion on the back.
fubbi2 - Posted - 08/17/2009: 11:07:02
From Jalovec's Encyclopedia of Violin-Makers, V2. -
"Schack, Johann; Schonbach [Bohemia], c.1900. Only a few instruments by him are known; he probably worked anonymously for the trade."
When a maker 'worked for the trade', it means they made violins, but usually sold them to dealers instead of labeling them and selling them as their own. I t looks like Schack did a bit of both....Sorry, I have no valuation info.
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Edited by - fubbi2 on 08/17/2009 11:07:36
coelhoe - Posted - 08/17/2009: 14:46:03
A wide range of dates for Mr. Schack, this poor schizoid violin maker. A German-named maker, living in Austria, about fifty miles west of Vienna, who makes a violin that honors Masaryk, the Czech leader, who successfully lobbied Wilson to get independence after WWi, and who was an underground agitator against the Austro-Hungarian Empire even before that. He was the three-times elected leader (1920-1935, d. 1937) of the newly minted Czechoslovakia (though the Slovaks were less than enthusiastic). So he ends up on the peghead of an Austrian violin with who.....Wagner (?) carved on the back! Hard to get a clear reading on the politics of this artifact.
Dennis
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