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Circa 1911 Lewis Student Violin #2, 2 Bows & Case
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Growing up in the 40s and 50s in Wichita Falls, my parents had an easy chair with a footstool in one corner of the livingroom. My dad always sat in that chair with his feet on the footstool and read the newspaper he received by mail from Santa Fe, NM. I would climb up on the back of the chair and play "beautyshop" and roll what few strands of hair he had on metal rollers. Most of the time, he would fall asleep while reading the paper and wasn't even aware of me rolling his hair. For as long as I can remember, a violin and banjo-uke, in their respective cases, sat behind this chair in the corner of that old livingroom, along with a large box of old sheet music. Periodically, I would open the cases and look at the instruments, but I never took them out. Sometime along the way I asked whose they were and was told the violin was "daddy's" and the banjo-uke "mother's." I never asked anything more. I never saw either of my parents take these instruments out or play them. My parents moved to Irving, Texas, in 1958, and every time I went to visit t was the same chair in their livingroom in a corner and what a wonderful feeling I had, after "losing" my home in Wichita Falls, to see the violin, banjo-uke and sheet music sitting behind that chair t in Irving. When I cleared out my parents' home in 1980, I brought the chair, the instruments and the music to my home, and they have continued to vegetate just as they have done for so many years. I still periodically open the cases and look at the instruments and now all I see is they are deteriorating. Unboxed the violin and case weighs right at 4 lbs, so I am plugging 5-6lbs in the shipping calculator, but will charge only exact postage when it is wrapped and boxed for shipment. This listing is for my dad's violin. He was born in 1899 and graduated from University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1921. (Yes, his name is in The Sidewalk...the block for 1921 is almost up to the front doors of Old Main). I don't see him playing this violin while at the University. I think he must have played it in junior high and/or high school in Kansas City, MO. After that, I think it was put away and never played again. I know nothing about violins, so I am describing the best I can exactly what I see. The violin measures approximately 23-inches long and is 8-1/2-inches wide at its widest point. It has some minor scuffed places intermittently on the edges and one on the front. What at first I thought were worn areas on the front, I now believe instead are ground in dirt areas and believe a person with the right know how could clean the wood. The back's finish remains relatively clean and shiney. Looking down through the openings on the violin to the inside t is a large piece of paper with a young person playing a violin and it says "Lewis Student Violin No. 2 Stradivarius Model Expressly Made for Wm. Lewis & Son, Chicago, Anno 1911." The strings go through a wood bridge that says "Aubert." The chin rest says "Becker's (something) Pin West." Also on the front of the violin, in front of the bridge, t are several initials etched t, but I am giving up on trying to decipher them. It is MW or something like that, which is similar to what is on the back of the carrying case. The two bows are somewhat similar in that both have o-l-d tape at the hand end, neither are strung and both bows look bowed...Did I just say a double-entendre? (LOL). One bow is 29-1/4-inches long, has mother of pearl and silver (?) and says "Trade Mark (insignia) Nippon." The other bow is 28-1/2-inches long, has mother of pearl and something that looks like porcelain and is not marked (unless it is under the tape). The case is intact, but fairly well used. The case handle has been long gone. The main lock is engraved "M&W CO" The bottom of the case is marked in an oval "Patd Apr 1, 1902, New Century M&W Co." then in another oval "Trade Mark M W (in a musical design) Warranted" then outside the oval "Registered July,1893." T is a key inside the case which fits the main lock, b...
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