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发表于 2007-5-18 11:42
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原帖由 liu01china 于 2007-5-17 19:46 发表 
那把琴还在卖.
看来这位葡萄牙的老兄豁出老本了.只Ebay的老板们在偷着乐!
另一把琴两千两百英镑的琴看起来还不错. Joseph Rocca的琴,这个成色的应该更贵。20万美金还差不多。不过他f孔形状还很像,就是地方好像不对。不过好的copy应该也值过2000磅。
JUST THE OTHER DAY, another Strings reader wrote inquiring about the value and authenticity of his violin. Like most readers who write to us trying to eek out information about a mystery fiddle, he carefully transcribed the faded, dusty label visible through the f-hole on the bass side: “Joseph Rocca fecit Premiato di Medaglie alle Esposizione di Torino, Genova, Londra Parigi Taurini anno Domini 1858 HIS.” Some of the words may be misspelled, he added, “as the label is kind of faded.”
It often comes as a surprise to learn how unreliable that paper label pasted inside your instrument can be in identifying an instrument’s maker, age, and place of origin. “Labels are as changeable as a pair of shoes,” quips Kerry Keane of Christie’s auction house. Even if the little tag inside your instrument is original, the information printed on it might be accurate but obscure, genuine but inaccurate, misleading, or downright false. A cursory investigation of the Rocca label provides an illustration.
Using a few key words as search parameters, the Internet turned up several instruments bearing the same label. Among them, a genuine Joseph Rocca, certified by a famous dealer and sold by a reputable auction house. The auction record for a violin by this maker is $207,757, set in 1999.
Clearly Rocca is a highly desirable maker.
A second violin bearing the same label was made by John Lott, perhaps the best of the English makers. Lott is famous for making copies so like a master makers’ work that they have passed the scrutiny of very well-regarded experts undetected. Whether to call them forgeries, rather than copies, is debatable, as forgery implies the intent to deceive. Lott being a fine maker in his own right, his violin sold at auction in 1994 for $26,450.
A third instrument with a Rocca label sold recently at Skinner’s, catalogued simply as modern, Genoa school. “I do remember that,” writes Skinner’s specialist, David Bonsey in an email. “It was a modern violin, looked a bit German. It had been everywhere, including a Christie’s sale, where it passed. It was all over New York and had several attributions to Enrico Rocca (Genoa) [Joseph's son], some from good people, to which I have no comment. In the end, it had just enough quality going for it that it sold to a dealer on spec that it was Enrico.”
The price at Skinner’s that day was $7,931—a good investment if it pans out, as Enrico Rocca instruments have sold as high as $79,000 at auction.
So, using the label alone to answer the reader’s question, could it really be a Rocca? Possible answers are “yes,” “no,” and “maybe, but not the same Rocca inferred by the label.”
As this one example illustrates, labels are hardly a reliable guide to identifying an instrument.
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