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The Collection of Andrew Hooker - 23rd September
Start date Friday 11 September 2026
End date Wednesday 23 September 2026
ANDREW HOOKER
Andrew was educated at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. Andrew joined Sotheby's in London in 1978, starting as an administrator and progressing to cataloguer in the musical instruments department.
Handling thousands of violins, violas and cellos passing through the auction house gave Andrew a thorough grounding in maker identification. Andrew rose to departmental Director, a role he held for the last seven of his thirteen years at the firm, travelling throughout Europe and the USA appraising stringed instruments for auction. By 1985 Andrew was the house specialist and often quoted in the international press on major sales.
In 1991 Andrew left Sotheby's and founded Andrew Hooker Violins. He subsequently moved the business into Christchurch House, a redundant Georgian church in the village of Rode, near Frome in Somerset.
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Lot 241
W. E. Hill & Sons, Violin Makers 1880 - 1936
John Basford and Tim Toft
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 243
Augusto e Gaetano Pollastri, Liutai in Bologna 1877 - 1960
Cesare Magrini
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 244
The Brompton's Book of Violin and Bow Makers
John Dilworth, Ed. John Milnes
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 245
Benjamin Banks, The Salisbury Violin Maker 1727 - 1795
Albert W. Cooper
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 248
Carlo Bergonzi, A Cremonese Master Unveiled
Christopher Reuning
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 249
Antonio Stradivari, The Cremona Exhibition of 1987
Charles Beare
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 252
Gio: Paolo Maggini, His Life and Work
W. E. Hill & Sons
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 253
Liuteria Italiana en la Argentina - Italian Violin Making In Argentina
Pablo Alejandro Saravi
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 254
Galleria dell'Accademia, Collezione del Conservatorio "Luigi Cherubini"
Gabriele Rossi Rognoni
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 256
The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments
David Boyden
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 257
Violin and Bow Makers Past and Present
Dennis G. Plowright
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 258
Les Luthiers Français
L & V. Le Canu
Three volumes
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 259
Count Ignazio Alessandro Cozio Di Salabue
Andrew Dipper and David Woodrow
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 260
Unverisal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers
William Henley
Deluxe Edition.
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 261
Goffriller, Amati Vuillaume, Violins and Violinists
Ernest N. Doring
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 262
The Shape of Stradivari Forms and Violins
David Woodrow
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
Lot 263
W. E. Hill & Sons, (1880 - 1992): A Tribute
Ealing Strings
Estimate: £10 - £20
Starting bid: £10
