Package of Bichromate of Potash
name: label: user
content: Moglie, Albert F.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This package of Bichromate of Potash, or Potassium Dichromate, is a water-soluble chemical stain that reacts with the tannin in wood, used to accelerate natural aging and darkening. This material is stored in a violin string paper pouch. Handwritten on the back of the package: </p>
label: Description
content: <p>Bicromate [sic] of Potash.</p>
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content: <p>This object was used by Albert Moglie (b. December 16, 1890, Rome; d. June 9, 1988, Washington DC), instrument maker and restorer, and proprietor of a violin shop in Washington DC for 65 years from 1922 until 1987. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Antonio Sgarbi and subsequently worked under Luigi Enbergher, Giuseppe Rossi and Rodolfo Fredi, all of Rome. Following these apprenticeships, Moglie was a student of Hippolyte Sylvestre in Paris and Leandro Bisiach in Milan.</p>
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content: <p>Albert Moglie came to America at the age of 24 to work for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, first in Cincinnati and then New York City in 1916. By 1917 he had established his own shop in New York at 1431 Broadway. He moved to Washington DC in 1922.</p>
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content: <p>Moglie enjoyed a fine reputation in Washington as a violin restorer and is especially remembered as the caretaker of the Gertrude Clark Whittall Stradivari quartet of instruments at the Library of Congress, an association that began in the 1930s and lasted more than 50 years.</p>
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content: <p>The Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Archives Center houses additional materials on the life and career of Albert F. Moglie:</p>
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content: <p>https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0283</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Work
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Albert F. and Lorette M. Moglie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0501.019
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0501.019
label: accession number
content: 1987.0501
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bichromate of potash, package of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: inorganic material (bichromate of potassium) (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 10.4775 cm x 3.175 cm