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10-06-2006, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: san francisco california | | | photographing the label
does anyone have any advice on how to take a photo of the label on the inside of my bass?
is there a way to do this without taking the top off?
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10-06-2006, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Colorado Springs CO | | | I got this with a digital camera and a penlight through the f hole. Not the best, but adequate...
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10-06-2006, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Naushua, New Hampster, U S of | | | Digital camera, flash with diffuser; bracket like mad, and check each shot until you get the one you need (that's the great thing with digital cameras; instant feedback, no charge for bad photos).
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10-06-2006, 04:15 PM
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10-17-2006, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore MD | | | on the subject of labels
I have a bass that the seller told me he thought was from the fifties and is only marked with a label "Germany" I saw a bit on violin appraisals web page http://www.oriscus.com/mi/violin.htm that made me wonder.
The McKinley Tariff Act of 1891 required that items imported to the U.S. be marked with their country of origin. In 1914 the act was revised to require the words "Made in" to also be used. Finally, in 1921 the act was revised yet again to require that all country names occurred in English. Thus an object labeled simply "Bavaria" of "Nippon" would likely (but not absolutely) be from some time between 1891 and 1914.
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10-17-2006, 10:28 PM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | | The Key Word IS?
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Originally Posted by airtight willie I have a bass that the seller told me he thought was from the fifties and is only marked with a label "Germany" I saw a bit on violin appraisals web page http://www.oriscus.com/mi/violin.htm that made me wonder.
The McKinley Tariff Act of 1891 required that items imported to the U.S. be marked with their country of origin. In 1914 the act was revised to require the words "Made in" to also be used. Finally, in 1921 the act was revised yet again to require that all country names occurred in English. Thus an object labeled simply "Bavaria" of "Nippon" would likely (but not absolutely) be from some time between 1891 and 1914.
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"imported to the U.S.".. If the Bass or Violin was made for another country or Domestic then It could easily have been brought here by the 'then' owner of the Bass. I had some older Basses shipped over here of Italian and English origin from both Italy and England and they did not have the 'made in' written anywhere. The Morelli label I posted has no country written but could of had a sticker in addition the the label and it was removed OR the Label was put in the Bass here in USA and replaced the sticker.
Unless you are actually unpacking the shipment yourself, there is no way of knowing what was written or marked on the instrument at the time of import. Maybe Bob B. could shed some light on this as he has a few years on me. |
10-18-2006, 06:00 AM
| | Inadvertent Microtonalist | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | This is all I could find inside mine . . . |
10-18-2006, 06:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | | wow, is this the original j.b.merlot who worked with carlos chianti in the early 20th century or his cousin b.s.merlot whose stepfather founded the montepulciano-school?
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10-18-2006, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Naushua, New Hampster, U S of | | | Here's one from my Chinese bass…
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10-18-2006, 07:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | | ...1759...!!! |
10-18-2006, 07:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | |  all i found in my bass was this...
Edit: wil, do you see the 42?
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10-18-2006, 09:33 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | "This is all I could find inside mine . . ."
That is obviously an Eastern European fake, as can be plainly seen when you look closely at the label.
I'm very surprised that Ken didn't spot that right away! 
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