labelled Joannes Baptista Guadagnini Cremonensis fecit Taurini ***mnus Antoni Stradivari 1797 GBGT and Stefano Scarampella... riparato in Mantova anno 1912
length of back 15⁷/₈in., 40.3cm.

Sold with a copy of a letter from the maker, dated 15^th December 1945, attributing the viola to Giuseppe Guadagnini, and copies of correspondence between Gaetano Pollastri and a Sig. Motti, dated October 1945

This viola, and the letter from Sgarabotto, are featured on pp. 218-219 of Andrea Zanre's book I Segreti di Sgarabotto