Stolen Violins 
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stolen/missing: 7/8 Carlo Micelli 1922
n/a - Bar Harbor, Maine - United States
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Description and Notable features
Stolen in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Description:
One fine violin (7/8), of German craft, bearing the label of the maker: Carlo Micelli. Violin is crafted of medium grain spruce (top plate). Back plate is of moderately-figured single piece maple (back plate). Violin is varnished in a dark-amber color, fully antiqued. Violin is in pristine condition.
Label:
Carlo Micelli
Anno 1922
Measurements:
Rear center seam : 345mm
Upper bout: 157mm
C-bout: 105mm
Lower bout: 191mm
Also stolen was a 4/4 sized violin bow crafted in Brazil bearing the maker’s brand H. J. Buffon. Bow is crafted of Pernambuco wood of octagonal carve, mounted with nickel fittings on an ebony frog inlaid with a Parisian eye. Winder is of three pieces. Weight at time of sale (6/2006) was 60.5 grams. -
stolen/missing: a baroque violin and two baroque bows from C. Riché and a classical bow from S.Bigot
27 Mar 2012 - 1:40 pm - Lyon train station Part-Dieu - France
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the violin and the bows were in a carbon dark box BAM.
Description and Notable features
Orange-red baroque violin made in St-James by Charles Riché in 2011; little gold flowers in the center and on the corners.
2 baroque bows with his initials: CR -one 17th century modele and one 18th century modele.
1 classical bow made by S.Bigot with a ivory button and (increase?)
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stolen/missing: VIOLIN by MATTEO GOFFRILLER, dated 1698 with a Sartory Bow
29 Jan 2008 - between 12:25 and 14:40 - on the train from London Paddington to Taunton - United Kingdom
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The Goffriller violin and Sartory bow were collected from Beare's in London. The person carrying the case put it on the rack on the 12.18 train from Paddington to Taunton. He got off at Bedwyn then realised that he hadn’t got the violin. The police reassured him that the staff would look after the violin when they checked the train at Taunton. It seems most likely that someone had taken it off the train either at Taunton before the staff arrived or at one of three stations en route after Bedwyn, namely Pewsey, Westbury, Castle Cary. The other possibility is that he was targeted and distracted which means that the Goffriller violin might have been taken off the train earlier at Slough, Reading or any one of the stations on the way west before Bedwyn. Promises that CCTV would be used to help find it were thwarted by failures and mistakes. A reward for £10,000 is on offer. I hope it will be recovered soon and that its beautiful tone can be heard in public again. Ruth
Description and Notable features
This is a Matteo Goffriller violin made more than 300 years ago. It has a two-piece back with the wood grain sloping gently almost like a reflection but with the darker parts staggered. The brown varnish has dark areas near the “f” holes and on the scroll with variations as shown in the photographs. The black crescent edge at base of neck is distinctive.
When it was stolen the violin had rosewood pegs and tail piece. It was with a bow stamped “E Sartory” and both were in a rectangular case with a dark brown cover that has missing zip tags. The violin was due for attention by experts although it was basically in very good condition.
The violin was bought by my late mother during WW2 and has a Goffriller label inside it dated 1698. The certificate was not stolen.
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stolen/missing: Violins and bows
7 Oct 2011 - East London - United Kingdom
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Description and Notable features
Violins
· Francesco Guadagnini (Turin, 1888)
· Ian Highfield (Birmingham, 1982)
Bows
· Malcolm Taylor (Gold-mounted, tortoiseshell)
· R. Herbert Leicht
· Matthew Coltman (Silver-mounted)
· Carbon fibre bow (col legno)
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