Description: "Franz Hell...Instrumentenmacher...Elmshorn"

• Somewhat flamed, one-piece maple back
• Medium, even, straight-grained spruce top
• Inlaid purfling very near the edges
• Ebony pegs, fingerboard, endbutton and chinrest (not shown)
• Metal tailpiece with built-in fine tuners
• Helicore strings
• Aubert bridge
• In an interesting twist, the word "hell" means bright in German, which describes the tone of this violin
• From Germany

Year: 1907 handwritten

Cost: $500