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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evelyb30, post: 11615132, member: 36&quot;]Placht Brothers in English.&nbsp; &nbsp; Pest is half of Budapest, which was two cities&nbsp; before the Chain Bridge went in.&nbsp; From one source in the Eurozone, they were a big outfit who opened in the 1820s and made instruments in both Vienna and Budapest.&nbsp; This dates before 1873 when the company started using Budapest on its labels.&nbsp; That fits with the 1860-something on the label. I&#039;m no violin expert, but the value of a violin is in how it sounds rather than the age.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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