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Written Valuations & Certificates

Tim Ingles and Paul Hayday will offer an initial evaluation of the authenticity and value of your instrument or bow. At this stage, the assessment is free and without obligation. In the first instance, we suggest submitting good-quality images to us, preferably by email to info@ingleshayday.com or by completing the valuation form.

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Instruments for sale in our March 2025 Auction

Eric Blot, 'Liuteria Italiana: 1860-1960'

Sydney Bowden, 'Pajeot: Bow Makers of the 18th & 19th Centuries'

Paul Childs, 'The Bow Makers of the Peccatte Family'

Ealing Strings, 'The Retford Centenary Exhibition'

David L. Fulton, 'The Fulton Collection'

Dmitry Gindin, 'The Modern Italian Violin Makers'

Dmitry Gindin, 'The Late Cremonese Violin Makers'

Herbert K. Goodkind, 'Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari'

K. Grunke, C.H-K Schmidt & W. Zunterer, 'Deutsche Bogenmacher'

Walter Hamma, 'Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst'

W.H., A.F. & A.E. Hill, 'Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work'

W.H., A.F. & A.E. Hill, 'The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family'

W.H., A.F. & A.E. Hill, 'The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family'

Karol Jalovec, 'Italian Violin Makers'

Florian Leonhard & Stefan-Peter Greiner, 'J.B. Vuillaume'

B. Millant & J.F. Raffin, 'L'Archet'

Roberto Regazzi, 'Il Suono di Bologna'

Joseph Roda, 'Bows for Musical Instruments of the Violin Family'

Etienne Vatelot, 'Les Archets Français'

A portrait of Robert Lindley

A portrait of William Henry Hill by Shirley C.L. Slocombe

A Royal Warrant of Appointment

A Royal Warrant from the Queen of the Belgians

A Royal Warrant from the Queen of the Netherlands

A watercolour of Joseph Hill's shop

A watercolour of the Monzani & Hill shop

A watercolour sketch of a Stradivari button by Shirley C.L. Slocombe

An etching for W.E. Hill & Sons by Charles William Sherborn

A photograph of a portrait of W.E. Hill by Shirley C.L. Slocombe

A photograph of the Hill shop in New Bond Street

Three photographs of Walter E. Hill

A photograph of Albert Phillips Hill with the 'Messie' Stradivari

Three photographs of Albert Phillips Hill

A print of the 'Violon du Diable' Guarneri by W.E. Hill & Sons

A print of the 'Violon du Diable' Guarneri by W.E. Hill & Sons

A print of the 'Violon du Diable' Guarneri by W.E. Hill & Sons

A postcard to Arthur Hill with a musical manuscript

A card from Henry Wood to 'Mr. Hill'

A letter from Edward Elgar to Arthur Hill

Two labels of Monzani & Hill

Four copies of Hill labels

A Eugène Ysaÿe medal

Alfred Hill's VMDA member's certificate

The Violinist's Pocket Guide of Selected Violin Music'

Two violin scrolls and a viola scroll

Three cello scrolls

Four viola da gamba scrolls and a double bass scroll

Two pieces of flamed violin maple

Eighteen bridges, probably by W.E. Hill

Three iron nails from a violin neck, probably by Antonio Stradivari

A set of four boxwood pegs, tailpiece & endpin

Four rosettes

An ebony fingerboard

An inlaid cello tailpiece

Seven volumes from the Hill records

Walter Hamma, 'Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst'

W.H., A.F & A.E Hill, 'Stradivari' and 'Guarneri' books

W.H., A.F. & A.E. Hill, 'Stradivari' and 'Guarneri' books

W.H., A.F. & A.E. Hill, 'Stradivari' and 'Guarneri' books

W.H., A.F. & A.E. Hill, 'Antonio Stradivari - His Life and Work'

Roger Millant, 'J.B. Vuillaume - Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre'

Stewart Pollens, 'The Violin Forms of Antonio Stradivari'

Antoine Vidal, 'Les Instruments à Archet'

Seven books

A violin

A violin

A violin

A violin

A violin

A violin

A cello

A cello

A cello

A cello

An ivory-mounted violin bow

A silver-mounted violin bow

A violin

A violin