The Herbert K. Goodkind collection. Series I. Catalog collection, 1838-1991.

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The Herbert K. Goodkind collection. Series I. Catalog collection, 1838-1991.

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The Catalog collection includes a wealth of information about violin sales, pricing, and ownership in 566 catalogs from auction houses, stringed instrument makers, and musical instrument dealers. The auction houses most heavily represented are Bongartz, Christie's, Phillips, Puttick & Simpson, and Sotheby's. Price lists and descriptive, historical, or biographical pamphlets of stringed instrument makers include companies such as Fraser, Gemunder, Muller & Kaplan, Roth, Virzi, and Weisshaar. Musical instrument dealer catalogs, especially those dealing with rare instruments include companies such as Bein & Fushi, Inc., Ditson, Doring, Fischer, Friedrich, Lewis, Lyon & Healy, Rushworth & Dreaper, Scherl & Roth, and Wurlitzer.

30 boxes (13 linear ft.)

Oberlin College Library

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Oberlin College. VSA/H.K. Goodkind Collection

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Frankel, Hyman, -1959

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Goodkind, Herbert K.

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Herbert K. Goodkind (1905-1982), a real estate agent born in New York City, lived most of his life in Larchmont, New York. Known primarily as a dealer and appraiser of violins, a book collector, and a publisher of his own book on Stradivari. From the description of The Herbert K. Goodkind collection, 1808-1991. (Oberlin College Library). WorldCat record id: 33936719 From the description of The Herbert K. Goodkind collection. Series I. Catalog collection, 1838-1991. (Oberlin ...