Description: Italian violin from Milan?     Repaired in 1926 by B. F. Phillips, 931 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA.   Past work includes a grafted neck, peg bushings, back seam re-inforcing and a sound post patch.   Re-varnishing might have been done.   The top is medium-grained spruce, the back is two-piece flamed maple.   The fingerboard is ebony and the fittings are boxwood.   Dominant strings.  Rich, full sound with an especially nice "G" string.

Year: early/mid 1800's