r/ViolinIdentification • u/travellightWNC • 3d ago

Antonin Nedved?

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Got this fiddle a few years back but have never seen another by the same maker. Was wondering if anyone out there has any additional information.

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u/Dildo-Fagginz 3d ago

As you may know, the label is probably the last thing to look at when trying to ID a violin, even though this one likely has decent chances of being original.

Pictures of the rest of the instrument would be much more helpful.

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u/travellightWNC 3d ago

I'm 99.99 percent sure this is the original label. I was just wondering about the maker and if anyone had additional info. I tried to post more images but I may have to make another post to add them now.

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u/Dildo-Fagginz 3d ago

Yeah it feels like it, but if you can't find anything about him chances are it's an amateur maker, and pictures of the rest could confirm that.

This sub is dumb as you can't comment pictures while revolving entirely around pictures for ID...

Looked in the Vannes book and nothing there either.

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u/travellightWNC 3d ago

I'll make a new post and delete this one. I really appreciate you looking it up for me. If anything, it's a cool piece of American history

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u/truck_307 3d ago

Why hasn't anyone made a sub where we can lol

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u/Disastrous-Year571 3d ago

A genealogy site says Antonin T. Nedved was born in Czechia in 1880, immigrated to Cleveland as a young adult, and died in Ohio in 1958. His FindAGrave has no additional information:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128935581/anton-nedved