In addition to my personal experience, I have collected data from very trusted sources, such as the Henley Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers.Some of these are pseudonyms that were used by makers for their own hand made instruments and they are still hand made by a specific maker.
Most of the trade violins (instruments made in a factory setting to be exported and sold by those in the trade of selling violins), were primarily made from the 1870s - 1930s. These instruments were mostly made in Germany, Czechoslovakia or France, but some other countries also produced instruments. Roth and Lederer, early E. H. Roth, was one such supplier in Markneukirchen. Some of the Trade Name instruments can be very nice, like the Roth firms instruments or some of the JTL ones, while many Trade Instruments are very poorly made and have little to no value today. This is no different from the quality of todays trade instruments, some are very nice and others are throw aways. The vast majority of Trade Instruments were simply labeled with a facsimile (copied) label of a famous maker like Stradivari, Amati, Guarneri and many others. It has been estimated that over 5 million of these trade instruments were made during this time period. The only way to know the value of your instrument is to have it seen in person at a violin shop or an appraiser associated with a musical instrument auction house. I have not included very many of the large number of modern Trade Instrument brand names as that list changes daily. Those that I have included have some dates, but I wont be putting end dates. Just like in the past, today there are hundreds or thousands of brands of instruments made with fake names like: Cremona, Mendini, Cecilio, Romano and Florea. These instruments come from all over the globe with many being made in China, Romania, Korea and other places even though they may have German or Italian sounding names - just look on Ebay or Amazon and you will see a good number of these modern trade instruments. Some of these, especially those sold at violin shops, can be very nice and when talking about beginner level instruments, they are what you would want. You will notice below that the firm of Jerome Thibouville Lamy (J.T.L), from Mirecourt France, had many, many models, they are reported to have had 1000 workers and an annual output of over 150,000 instruments for a number of years. These instruments are very plentiful and some can be very nice. You may see a few instruments listed labeled as being made in Mittenwald Ge. However, the makers in Mittenwald were and are for the most part small mom and pop shops rather than the German factories of Markneukirchen, Bubenreuth and Dresden. If you were to make a trip to Mittenwald, this will be obvious from this small sleepy town of cottages. A couple of larger more commercial ventures there (today), like t he Leonhardt Workshop, are higher grade instruments than most of the trade instruments. This list is based on 40 years worth of seeing thousands and thousands of instruments and is an ongoing work and by no means meant to be all encompassing, there are probably 5 to 10 times this number that I have not seen or heard of.
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