FORENSIC CASEBOOK: Crack repairs covered by a varnish that becomes opaque under ultraviolet light.
The violin in question was made by John Frederick (II) Lott (b.1804, d.1870). He is known as Jack Lott to differentiate him from his father, and because this was the name used by the novelist Charles Reade who wrote his biography, ‘Jack Of All Trades’. It is a copy of a Stradivari with a 1716 […]
