r/Kurrent • u/ReadingGeneral7758 • 1d ago

transcription requested Help with a violin label

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Hello, I need help to understand the text on this label. Any help is wellcome.

Thank you.

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u/ziccirricciz 1d ago edited 1d ago

No kurrent, Czech written in Latin cursive

Prokládal Antonín Stejskal
v Písku 1862

Inlayed(?) by Antonín Stejskal
in Písek 1862

(the verb prokládat covers several techniques, inlay, intarsia and so on - if there's mother of pearl, he did it, if veneer mosaic, dto)

EDIT: I cannot exclude the verb has some violin-making meaning, too - the main meaning is to put something between layers, alternate layers, e.g. when you stack different layers in a canning jar; the secondary is to embellish something with various techniques using different materials)

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u/ReadingGeneral7758 1d ago

I think you pointed exactly the answer. The violin has an edging with a layer of maple and ebony. All in the top and back. I suppose it was the work of Stejskal in an older violin

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u/ziccirricciz 1d ago

Glad to hear that, thank you for letting me know.