{"id":19533,"date":"2016-03-03T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/?product=charles-jean-baptiste-collin-mezin-violin"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:28:11","slug":"charles-jean-baptiste-collin-mezin-violin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/product\/charles-jean-baptiste-collin-mezin-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles J.B. Collin-Mezin pere, father violin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Collin Mezin (p\u00e8re &#8211; father) violin.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A beautiful certified <a title=\"J.B. Collin-Mezin violin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-violins\/\" target=\"_self\">French violin<\/a>\u00a0probably made by Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin p\u00e8re, father made circa 1900. (professional certificate Philippe Ferrard in Paris.)<br \/>The rich brownish\u00a0 varnish is attractively textured ; a very good workmanship as you may expect from this famous violin maker.<br \/> A very nice example of this maker&#8217;s work\u00a0 : t<span>he back, ribs and scroll of deeply flamed maple.<\/span><br \/>The sound is big, well projected, mature and warm in character.<\/p>\n<p>This Collin-Mezin father violin responds very easily and has a well balanced tone in all the registers of the instrument.\u00a0 <br \/>This beautiful instrument is in a good condition, and comes with a professional certificate of authenticity from expert Philippe Ferrard in Paris. <br \/>New tailpiece and strings included. Interesting price for this kind of violin.<br \/>Wearing its original signature and apocr. label. (see certificate).<br \/>length back: ca. 358 mm (4\/4 size).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More <a title=\"French violins\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanviolins.eu\/en\/old-violins\/\" target=\"_self\">French violins<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin<\/strong>\u00a0(1841\u20131923) was a distinguished\u00a0<a title=\"France\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French<\/a>\u00a0maker of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Violins\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Violins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violins<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Violas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Violas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violas<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Cellos\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cellos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cellos<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Double bass\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double_bass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basses<\/a>\u00a0and bows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>He was an Officier de l&#8217;Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts and won gold and silver medals at the Paris Exhibitions in 1878, 1889, and 1900. (from Wikipedia).<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>COLLIN-MEZIN,<\/strong> Charles (II) Born 1870 Amboise, died 1934, Mirecourt France. Son and assistant of Charles Jean-Baptiste Collin, above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><span>Travelled widely and stayed in America before returning to Mirecourt 1900. <br \/>Own instruments labelled \u2018Le Victorieux\u2019. Business continued after his death under Jean Larcher and his son <br \/>Charles Jean-Baptiste Collin-Mezin (III) (b. 1910). \u2018Le Victorieux\u2019 type grand Soliste \/ par Ch J. B. Collin-Mezin \/ Ma\u00eetre Luthier \/ Grand Prix Exposition Universelle, 1900 \/ Paris &#8211; \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">\u00a0John Dilworth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0Pls <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">contact us<\/span> for more info.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mezin violin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[277,253],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-19533","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-old-violins","product_cat-violins","first","outofstock","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/19533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/19533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.europeanviolins.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}