Carlo Giuseppe Testore

Labeled Nicolas Amati 1677

IU CATALOG NUMBER 14

Certificates:

Rudolph Wurlitzer (1945) as Andrea Guarnerius circa 1690

Jacques Francais (1976) as Carlo Giuseppe Testore

Born at Novara (Italy) in 1660, went to Milan in 1683, worked with Grancino died in 1738. Several models Grancino-Amati models have been re-labeled and sold as genuine Grancinos or Guarnerius. Varied modeling with Amati influence predominant. Tonal quality remarkably powerful and round.