Victor Carrol SQUIER

Highest auction price achieved
£ 1540.00

By John Dilworth

SQUIER, Victor Carrol Born 1866, died 1949 Battle Creek, Michigan USA. Adopted son and pupil of Jerome Squier, above. After learning the craft with his father, worked for William Peters in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Treffle Gervais and George Drapier in Boston. Established independently in Battle Creek from 1890 and expanded his business into an extensive music shop. First instrument dated 1883. Subsequently made over 950 instruments, mostly careful copies of well-known Stradivari originals. His own oil varnish; later made and sold commercially. Author of Antonio Stradivari: His Life and Work (Battle Creek, Michigan, 1944). Victor Carroll Squier / Maker / Battle Creek. Mich. / No. 695. Anno 1928

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin 36.0 cm Battle Creek, 1890 Sun 1st July 07 £ 953.00
Violin 36.0 cm Battle Creek, 1890 Sat 1st July 06 £ 1061.00
Violin Battle Creek, 1920 c. Sat 1st October 05 £ 1540.00
Violin 1946 Sun 1st October 00 £ 1047.00
Violin 18-- Fri 1st May 98 £ 229.00
Violin 1896 Thu 1st May 97 £ 607.00
Violin 1895 Sat 1st May 93 £ 1100.00
Violin 1894 Mon 1st April 91 £ 242.00

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