Word: stradivari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alceo Dossena had a good apprenticeship for his profession. He was born in 1878 in Cremona, hometown of the great Violin Maker Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...
...feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry who will soon have a chance to see the work...