Italian Violin, Postiglione Workshop, Naples, 1896

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Italian Violin, Postiglione Workshop, Naples, 1896, labeled VINCENTIUS POSTIGLIONE, NO 230 ME FECIT NEAP 1896, VP, and signed VINCENZO POSTIGLIONE FECIT NAPOLI 1896 on the inside top upper treble flank, with jetatura surrounded by the letters ITP in a triangular arrangement, length of two-piece back 14 in., 355 mm, with case.
Estimate $20,000-28,000

surface scratches and abbrasions, wear to edges of top, lower bouts, repaired wing crack, repaired face crack, bass side from ff to lower edge, other small hairline fractures to lower top, peg holes bushed.

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