???
    Merton
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London (1876)
    ???
    Boothby-Heathcote
    Hill & Sons - London
    Simonds, Shea
    Payne, Clarence
    Payne, J. R.
    ???
    ??? (1961)
    ???

[73] p 27

    ???
    Pré, Jacqueline du
    Harrell, Lynn

-

    ???
    Lord Palmer
    Kubelik, Jan
    ???

This instrument was presented to Kubelik by Lord and Lady Palmer on his 21st birthday. [73] p 25

    ???
    Becker, Jean
    ???
    Dardenne, Victor (1944)
    ???

This instrument is similar in appearance to the Marquis Doria. Dardenne was a Belgian violinist of the New York Metropolitan Opera House orchestra. [73] p 24

    ???
    Houten, Anton Ignatz van - Aachen (~1844) ¹
    Weber, Dr. ¹
    Joachim, Joseph - Berlin ²
    Morgan, Geraldine (1881) ³
    Greer, Dessie (1894) ³
    Roeder (1918) ⁴
    Schilbach, Oswald ⁵
    Brown, Mrs. John Nicholas (1936) ⁶
    Brown, Nicholas (1936) ⁶
    ???
    Wang, Mira - New York (1999)

1. Van Houten was a distinguished amateur violinist, Dr. Weber his son in law.
2. Joachim inherited this instrument from his friend Dr. Weber.
3. Geraldine Morgan, Joachim's pupil, was the eldest child of John Paul Morgan, the founder of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. His four children went all to Berlin, Germany, to study with Joachim. Short before Geraldine's american debut Joachim gave her the instrument. Soon afterwards, a friend, Ms. Greer, purchased it from Joachim and presented it to Miss Morgan, who was very successful performing as well as teaching. She founded the New York Joseph Joachim Institue.
4. Mr. Roeder was the son of Geraldine Morgan, who had married Mr. Benjamin F. Roeder.
5. Violin dealer.
6. Mrs. Brown acquired this instrument for her son Nicholas.

[73] p 46; [60] p 731; [41] p133; [146]

    ???
    Herr Mueller - Bremen
    Joachim, Joseph (1849)
    C.G. Meier, London
    Knoop, Johann Ludwig Baron
    Hill & Sons - London
    several Americans
    Ricci, Ruggiero
    Stassevitch, Paul

Played by Ruggiero Ricci in the recording 'The Glory of Cremona'. [190]

    ???
    van Houten
    Joachim, Joseph
    Riechers
    Wolff, Leonhard
    Hill & Sons - London
    Burmester, Willy
    Elman
    Wannamaker collection
    Bloomfield, Sam

-

    ???
    Mendelssohn, Franz von
    Joachim, Joseph
    Fachiri, Adila ¹
    ???

1. Adila Fachiri, born von Aranyi (later d'Aranyi) was Joachim's grandniece and sister of Jelly d'Aranyi with whom she often played duets in public.

[41] p 182

    ???
    Bradley, M. S.
    ???
    Viotti
    Rode, Pierre
    ???
    Keller, Harrison (late 1930's)
    ???

[73] p 36

    ???
    Midori

-

    ???
    Chaponay, Cte. de
    ???
    Kahn, Felix
    ???

[77] p 84

    ???
    Viotti, Giovanni Battista
    ???
    Baillot, Pierre
    Pillet-Will, Count (~1830)
    Pillet-Will Family
    Lue, Dr. Henry - Paris (1899)
    ???
    Caressa & Francais - Paris
    Hamma & Co. - Stuttgart
    Pringsheim, Max - Breslau (1902)
    ???
    Björnson, Einar - Oslo (1908)
    Parlow, Kathleen (1908)
    Parlow's estate
    Marchetti, Ted - Columbus, Ohio
    ???

[77] p 85, 101; [109]; [184]

    ???
    Kiesewetter, Christoph G.
    Fletcher, Charles, London
    Havemeyer, Horace (about 1900)
    Wurlitzer, Rembert (1953)
    Gross, Dr. Jerome
    Gottlieb, Howard
    ???
    Arrison, Clement
    Vengerov, Maxim

Christoph Gottfried Kiesewetter was a German violinist (1777 - 1827), who had great success as composer and violinist but died as a pauper. [163]

    ???
    Münch, Charles
    Szeryng, Henryk
    Israelian State (1972)

[119] p 774

    ???
    King George I - London ? ¹
    ???
    King George III - London ²
    Scottish Officer (1800) ³
    ???
    Molique, Wilhelm Bernhard - Nürmberg ⁴
    Dreyfuss, Baron von - Munich ⁵
    Dreyfuss Family
    Riechers, August - Berlin (1889)
    ???
    Meyer, Prof. Waldemar - Berlin (1890)
    ???
    Herrmann, Emil ⁶
    Kichi, Koichi - Tokyo
    ???

1. Some accounts name George I, King of Great Britain, as a past owner of this instrument.
2. It's more likely that George III has been meant as past owner and player.
3. George III presented this instrument to one of his officers, a Scotchman who was a devoted lover of the violin. When he fell in the battle of Warterloo, the instrument was found among the things of his property he carried with him. This could be the reason why this instrument is also recorded as the Scottish in some sources.
4. Molique (1802 - 1869) was a famous German violinist who lived in England from 1849 until 1866.
5. Baron von Dreyfuss was a pupil of Molique. The King George remained in the Dreyfuss family until 1889.
6. Emil Herrmann acquired the violin probably after Prof. Meyer's retirement in 1922. He sold it to Koichi Kichi.

According to Doring this instrument is also recorded as dated 1716. Whenley states a Molique 1716 Strad which is probably the same instrument.

Goodkind states also Habisreutinger as past owner.

[73] p 53 and 63; [41] p 157; [60] p 731

    Stradivari, Paolo
    ???
    King Maximilian - Bavaria
    Violinist of the King's orch.
    Hausmann, Bernhard (1826) (1826)
    Herrman, Emil (1925)
    ???
    Mrs. Rudolph Loeb, Berlin
    ???
    Axel-Springer-Stiftung - Berlin
     •   Schwalbé, Michel - Berlin
     •   ??? (1984)
    ???

[73]; [49]

    ???
    ??? - Spain (until 1836)
    Thibout's, J. P. - Paris (1836)
    Muzler, Mr.
    Chevillard, Pierre
    ???
    Dom Luis, King of Portugal (1878)
    Portugal state collection
    Mafra Palace (1991)
    Lisbon Museu da Música - Lisbon (1994)

Mr. Muzler was an amateur cellist.
The Portugese cellist Suggia declared this was not the King's instrument. Since then it is considered in Portugal to be a copy. Outside of Portugal it is unknown. No photographs can be found in any Stradivari related books. In 1991 it was stored in the cellars of the Mafra Palace being exposed to the rats, the woodworms and the humidity. It shows an unusual patina, probably the result of this treatment. [175] p 720

    ???
    Goding Collection
    Laurie, David
    Knoop, Johann Ludwig Baron
    Baron Knoop's family (1918)
    ???

[40]

    ???
    Enthoven, Mr. (about 1880)
    Davis, Charles (after Mr. Enthoven's death)
    Hill & Sons - London
    Bennett, Richard
    Hill & Sons - London
    Kochánski, Paul
    Kochánski's widow (1934)
    Rosenberg, Mr
    Garbat, Rachel - New York
    Wurlitzer, Rembert - New York
    Rosand, Aaron (1957)

The Kochanski Guarneri del Gesú dated 1741 has never been restored, a quite rare case. [118], p 615

This instrument came to America in the middle of the 19th century.
Mr. Bennet possessed at one time the most important collection of instruments.
This facts were taken from a letter to Mr. Rosand from A. Phillips Hill published in The Strad 10/94. [120]

Mr Rosenberg was a relative of Mrs Rachel Garbet which in turn was a friend of Kochánski. After Kochánski's death Mrs Garbet adviced Mr Rosenberg to buy the instrument from the widow. Due to a seriously ill Mr Rosenberg gave the instrument in Wurlitzer's vault for many years and attorney power to Mrs Garbet to sell it.
[142]

    ???
    Kochánski, Paul
    ???
    Briselli, Iso
    ???
    Amoyal, Pierre
    Stolen

[54] p 185

    ???
    Koeber, Mr. - Hamburg (~1911)
    ???
    Hermann, Willi
    Wurlitzer, Rembert - New York (1951)
    Guizan, Alfred Mexico City
    Gade, George
    Wurlitzer, Rembert - New York
    Castellone, Jerry
    Wurlitzer, Rembert - New York
    Parera, Dr. Charles
     •   Kim, Young Uck
    Francais, Jacques - New York
    Lafer, Oscar - Sao Paulo (1974)

[92]

    ???
    Herr Weber - France
    Joachim, Joseph
    German amateur player
    M. Hinderer, Switzerland
    Hill & Sons - London
    Wurlitzer (1923)
    Kortshack, Hugo

-

    ???
    Kreisler, Fritz
    ???
    Portman, Mary
    ???
    Arrison, Clement R.
     •   Stradivari Society - Chicago
         •   Kokkonen, Elissa Lee

Owned by Arrison this instrument was lent to Ms Kokkonen through the Stradivari Society Chicago. [163]

    ???
    Italian musician
    Kreutzer, Rodolphe (1795)
    Kreutzer's widow
    Massart (1831-1864)
    ???
    Doyen, Louis
    ???
    American person (1921)
    ???

Massart was Kreutzer's favourite pupil. This instrument was illustrated in 'The Strad Magazine' April 1909.[73] p 69

    ???
    Lupot, Nicolas
    Kreutzer, Rodolphe
    ???
    Wurlitzer, Rembert - New York
    Kress, George - Green Bay, Wisc. (1958 - 1997)
    Christie's - London (1997)
    Lazarov, Haim - London (01.04.1998)
    ???

The Kreutzer came under the hammer at April 1, 1998. [173] p 345

It was bought by Lazarov, a London based dealer and former violinist, on behalf of 'one of the world's greatest violinist', as stated by himself. He didn't want reveal the name of the new owner but he said: 'We will be hearing the violin played all over the world very soon.' The Kreutzer fetched the record sum of 947,500 Pounds.

Meanwhile there are rumours indicating that Maxim Vengerov is the new owner. [174] p 579

    ???
    Kreutzer, Rodolphe
    ???
    Doyen
    ???

[73] p 82

    ???
    Kubelik, Jan
    ???
    Chung, Kyung-Wha

[119] p 150, 433

    Royal Academy of Music
    Colin, Sauer

Mr. Sauer was loaned this instrument by the RAM. [186]

    Stradivari, Paolo
    Salabue, Count Cozio di
    ???
    Vuillaume, J. B. (1864)
    Blunt, Lady Anne (1864)
    ??? - Germany
    Knoop, Johann Ludwig Baron (1896)
    Street, J. E. - england (1900)
    Bennet, Richard
    Bower, R. - London
    Werro, Henry - Bern (1941)
    Hill & Sons - London
    Bloomfield, Sam (1959)
    Sotheby's - London (1971)
    Hill & Sons - London
    Unknown (Banker of Singapur)
    ???

This instrument, considered to be one of the finest existing Strads, bears the initials P. S. indicating, that it was owned by Stradivari's son Paolo. It laid for 100 years abandonned in a loft in Spain before Vuillaume acquired it and sold it to Lady Anna Isabella Noel, better known as Lady Anne Blunt (+1895), who was an amateur violinist, granddaughter of Lord Byron and pupil of Wilma Neruda-Norman and Leopold Jansa. At the Sotheby's auction 1971 the Lady Blund was acquired by Hill & Son on behalf of an unknown customer, who was later identified as a banker of Singapur.
[73] p. 70; [187] p. 206; [156] Lot No. 21

    ???
    Hamma & Co.
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London
    Lafont, Charles Phillipe
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London (1900)
    Tennant, Sir Charles
    Tennant, Lady Marguerite
    Möller, Max - Amsterdam
    Sprengel, Dr. Bernhard - Hannover (1944)
    ???

While being in possession of Max Möller this instrument was exhibited at the Stradivari Bicentenary Exhibition in Cremona.
[153] Lot 40.

    ???
    Hill & Sons - London
    Lafont, Charles Phillipe
    ???
    Caressa, Albert - Paris
    Wurlitzer
    Sturchio, Dr.
    Albert, Saffe (1920)
    Herrmann, Emil (1931)
    ???
    Moennig & Son
    Haff, Dr. Charles (1938)
    ???

[73] p 34

    ???
    Lafont, Charles Phillipe (before 1830) ¹
    Thibout - Paris
    Davis - London
    Goding, James
    Christie'a - London
    ???
    Vuillaume, J. B.
    Kousminski, Jean de
    Brodsky, Adolf (1880-81) ²
    ???
    Ricci, Ruggiero ³
    ???
    Bein & Fushi, Chicago
    Kennedy, Nigel (1991) ⁴

1. Lafont is said to have played this instrument in a contest against Paganini. Lafont of course lost but Paganini recognized that the sound quality of the Lafont was superior to his own instrument.
2. It is said that Brodsky premiered Tchaikovsky's violin concerto with this instrument on December 4, 1881 in Vienna. [161]
3. Played by Ruggiero Ricci in the recording 'The Glory of Cremona'. [190]
4. [161]; [139]

    ???
    Maucotel (1922)
    Lachmann, Erich
    Wurlitzer collection
    Zimbalist, Efrem
    Sarser, David - New York (1948)

Named after the celebrated French conductor. [73] p 86

    ???
    Private Collector - Basel
    Sotheby's - London ¹

1. This instrument will be auctioned on November 13, 2001.

[60]

    ???
    Tarisio, Luigi
    Vuillaume, J.B. - Paris
    Leduc - Paris
    ??? - England
    Adam, John
    Bennet, Richard
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London
    Nicolini, Ernest (1891)
    Hart - London
    Waddell, R.D.
    Wurlitzer, Rembert - New York
    Phips, J.S. (1924)
    Szeryng, Henryk (1970)

Leduc was a Parisian architect. [173] p 382

    ???
    Vitta, Baron
    ???
    Lee, Frances G.
    ???

[77] p 84, 101

    ???
    Betts (about 1800)
    Leslie, John, Edinburgh (1820)
    Leslie, William Henry
    Hill & Sons - London (1905)
    Tate family, London
    Bower, R. (1926)
    ???
    Wilson, A. Clem
    ???

Also known as the Tate. [73] p 52

    ???

Goodkind states Hamma, Straus and Wurlitzer as past owners. [60] p 724

    Laberte

The name is french and means The Rising Sun. This is the first of the known ornamented violins by Stradivari. [73] p 20.

    ???
    Libon, Felipe
    Betts, John (1804)
    Lord Arbuthnot
    ???

Felipe Libon was a famous violinist at the Spanish and French Courts. In the 1960s this instrument was said to be still in possession of Lord Arbuthnot's family [73] p 29

    ???
    Libon, Felipe
    ???
    Betts
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London
    ???
    Sister of W. D. Russel
    St. Dunstan's (1917)
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London (1923)
    Stuart, Alexander J. (1925)
    ???
    Fite, Paul - Natchez, Mississippi USA (1950)
    ???
    William Lewis & Son - Chicago
    Tucott, David
    ???
    Kubelik, Jan
    Suk, Josef

Felipe Libon was a Spanish violinist. [73] p 81

    ???
    Liebig - Vienna
    ???
    Hamma & Co.
    Rauer, Ms. - Vienna
    Werro
    Rauer, Ms. - Vienna
    Schneiderhan, Wolfgang
    ???

Liebig was an well-known instruments collector of Vienna. [73] p 44

    ???
    Tartini, Giuseppe
    Salvini - Milan
    Lipinski, Karl Joseph (1817) ¹
    Weichold, Richard - Dresden (1861) ²
    Röntgen, Engelbert Prof. - Leipzig
    ???
    Hill & Sons - London (1899)
    Amateur Player - Holland
    Hill & Sons - London
    ???
    Hamma - Germany
    ???
    Wurlitzer - New York (1922)
    ???
    Chittolini, Roger
    Martínez Cańas, Dr. José - Havana (1941)
     •   Reyes, Ángel - Havana ³
    Wurlitzer - New York (1960)
    ???

1. Lipinski was a celebrated Polish violinist, quondam friend of Paganini.
2. Weichold was an well known dealer in Leipzig.
3. Ángel Reyes, the eminent Cuban violinist, played on this instrument the Glazounow Violin Concerto in November 1942 with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Massimo Freccia.

[73] p 60; [41] p 193; [60] p 733; [100]

    ???
    Stradivari Society - Chicago
     •   Barton, Rachel (1992)
     •   Roehn, Daniel (2000)

[5]; [4]; [162]

    ???
    ???

[187] p 73

    ???
    Gand
    ???
    Coke, Lord
    ???
    Segelman, Gerald - London
    Biddulph - London (1991)
    Gottlieb, Howard - Chicago (1991)
    Bein & Fushi - Chicago (1991)
    ??? (1991)
    Landon, Christophe - New York ???
    ???
    Fazenda Ipiranga - Guaranesia/MG, Brasil
     •   Barton, Rachel (2001)

[77] p 95; [136]; [57]; [72]; [4]

    ???
    Betts, John (~1800) ¹
    ???
    Pearson - England (~1850) ¹
    Wyndham-Quin, Windham Thomas - Adare (1890) ^1,2
    Cobbett, W. W. (1923) ^1,3
    Hill & Sons - London ⁵
    Bower, Robert (1932) ¹
    Arányi, Jelly d` - London (1937) ¹
    Arányi's niece - London (1966) ⁵
    Beare, J. & A. - London (1974)
    Lafer, Oscar - Brazil (1974) ^5,6
    Beare, J. & A. - London (1974) ^1,5
    ???
    Vandyl, Felix ¹
    Bein & Fushi, Chicago ^1,4
    Mutter, Anne-Sophie (1984) ^1,4,7

1. [41] p 386.

2. Lord Dunraven, the Irish politician Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl, gave this instrument its name. He was born at Adare, co. Limerick, Ireland, 12 February 1841. Acting for the Daily Telegraph in the war of 1870 between France and Prussia, he was present when the king of Prussia was proclamed German emperor in the Galerie de Glaces at Versailles 1871. About 50 years later he was also present there to see the signing of the peace between the Allies and defeated Germany, being the only person present on both occasions.
   In 1871 he succeeded to the earldom and to the seat in the House of Lords.
   He died at his London residence 14 June 1926.
   [65]

3. W. W. Cobbett was an English amateur player and collector.

4. In an article in The Strad (January 1994 issue) Geoffrey Fushi says: 'I love the position I have because I can get great instruments into the hands of great players. That's the thing I really enjoy, to get a wonderful Strad like the "Lord Dunraven" for Anne-Sophie Mutter. I could never hope to play like these people, but I've enhanced what they are doing. ...'
   [139].

5. [7].
6. Lafer lastly decided not to purchase this instrument '... in spite its great qualities.'
   [92].
7. [140].

    ???
    ??? - Vienna (1820)
    ???
    Lyon & Healy - Chicago (1922)
    ???
    Partello, Dwight J. - Washington
    Lyon & Healy
    ???

The Lord Nelson acquired this name for having been present on Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar. It was the property of one of his officers and remained undamaged. Partello left his entire collection to the U.S. National Museum at Washington but his heirs, breaking his will, sold the entire collection to Lyon & Healy. [73] p 27

    ???
    Gillot, Joseph
    Auction (1872)
    Hart, Georg (1872)
    Adderley, Hon. Charles
    Hart, Georg
    Lord Norton
    ???
    Fletcher, Charles - Bournemouth (1901)
    ???
    Darbishire, W. A. - Nantille (1908)
    Motto, Marie (1908)
    ???
    Beare
    Posner, Nathan E. - London (~1925)
    Wurlitzer
    ???
    Herrmann, Emil
    ???
    Corbin, Alfred O. - New York
    ???
    Fels, Samuel - Philadelphia
     •   Briselli, Iso
     •   Stradivari Bicentenary Exhibition- Cremona
    ???
    Karpilowsky, Daniel
    ???

[73], p 87

    ???
    Menuhin, Lord Yehudi

-

    ???
    Spohr, Louis
    Kömpel, August
    Kömpels widow
    Thuringia State - Weimar
    Branco (1920)
    ???

[73] p 37

    ???
    Sotheby's
    ???

This instrument is suposed to be sold at the auction on June 17th 1997 [183]

    ???
    Mond, Ludwig
    Tua, Teresina - Turin (1909)
    Conservatoire of Music Verdi - Milan (1915)
    Conservatoire of Music St. Cecilia - Rome
    Tommasini, Vincenzo - Rome (1935)
    Tommasini, Giulia - Rome (1950)
    ???

Mr. Mond, a rich English industrialist of German origin. In his will he left this instrument to Ms. Tua whose admirer he was. She used it for the rest of her long artistic life. Being 50 years of age she considered her artistic career as ended and dedicated all her instruments to several music conservatoires before ceding the ownership of this 1709 Strad to Vincenzo Tommasini.[73] p 50

    ???
    Lyall
    ???
    Kessler, Frank (1950)
    ???
    University of Western Ontario
    US business person (1997)
    Canada Council for the Arts
     •   Lara St. John

Lyall was an English person who owned this istrument. Frank Kessler was a member of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. [73]
This instrument has been loaned to the Canada Council for the Arts together with the Baumgartner Strad by the business person, which do not wish to be identifed, for a term of 2 years. Lara St. John winned the competition of the Canada Council for the loan of this instrument. [23]