Appraisal: Kloz Family Violin, ca. 1775
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Appraisal: Kloz Family Violin, ca. 1775
Check out Cat Autrey’s appraisal of a Kloz family violin, ca. 1775, in Junk in the Trunk 14.
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Appraisal: Kloz Family Violin, ca. 1775
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Check out Cat Autrey’s appraisal of a Kloz family violin, ca. 1775, in Junk in the Trunk 14.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: It came from my wife.
It was a gift from her father, who purchased it in Chicago in 1955, and my understanding is that it was a piece of equipment from a Georg Kloz, part of the family from Mittenwald, Germany.
I would like to get a verification that this is indeed a Kloz violin, and not a copy.
There is a... a paper signature in... within the violin body.
They can be messed with, they can be changed.
And it had a date in there, and the date was somewhere around the 1765, '66.
APPRAISER: I never look at labels whenever I appraise an instrument, because they can be taken out, they can be changed, or they can be in there from the time the instrument was made and just be fake.
The top of the violin is made out of spruce.
Uh, the ribs and the back are made out of maple.
The first thing I look at for an instrument from the 18th century is I look to make sure that the scroll has been grafted, and this one has.
That's great.
The Kloz were a family of makers out of Mittenwald, Germany.
The Mittenwald makers made their instruments using an outside mold versus the Cremonese, who would often use an inside mold.
So where the ribs join at the corner, because they used an outside mold, the joint, instead of being like right on the corner, is actually slightly on the inside, towards the center of the c-bout.
Kloz family instruments will have a one-piece rib.
A lot of violins, they-- they have a joint right here.
So normally there's a line right down the center here, but there isn't one.
It's all one solid piece, and then there's this little notch carved right there that lines up with the back seam.
Another Kloz attribute is that the fluting of the scroll actually, instead of stopping right here, will continue on all the way up the mouth of the scroll.
And this one does.
The thing for me is that it-it doesn't quite look 1760s.
Still definitely, I would say 18th century.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Um, but a little bit later.
GUEST: Later.
APPRAISER: I do think it is Kloz family, but I-I don't think it is by Georg.
The Kloz family, there were many, many makers.
I would feel comfortable saying that this instrument would sell for $15,000 in today's market.
GUEST: Thank you.
I-I was hoping for a definitive Georg Kloz creator, but we'll keep it in the family for a long time.
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