Notable Sales: Antonio Stradivari | Violin, 1667
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Ex-Sachs
Cremona, circa 1666
labelled Antonio Stradiuarius Cremonensis, Faciebat Anno 1670
length of back 35.3cm.
The “Ex-Sachs” Strad, circa 1666, is among the earliest known violins by Antonio Stradivari. It closely resembles and is said to be made from the same piece of wood as the 1666 ‘ex-Back’ violin, housed at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The instrument can be traced back to Prof. Wilhelm Sachs of Berlin, who was a violinist, teacher and dealer, who held teaching posts at the Berlin Hochschule and later at Trinity College in London, and also in Munich.
In 1922 Chanot & Chardon acquired the violin and certified it as in the possession of Madame Sachs, presumably widow of Professor Sachs. During the second half of the 20th century the violin was in the possession of Theodore Abel and his wife Theodora Mead Abel. Theodora was a celebrated psychologist and educator, and, after her death in 1998 at the age of 99, the violin was consigned to Oster Violins of Philadelphia.
The ‘ex-Sachs’ was sold in 2002 via Dietmar Machold to the American collector Herbert Axelrod, who owned a quartet of decorated Strads and at least a dozen other Stradivaris, including the “Andrejeus” of 1708. The entire Axelrod collection was sold to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in 2003 and then to the Taube brothers, twins and businessmen from the United States, in 2007. In 2013, the violin was consigned to Ingles & Hayday, who sold it to a Canadian collector. It was later acquired by Poesis Music Corporation, Canadian violin experts based in Vancouver, and remains with them today.
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