C. Heberlein was born in Markneukirchen in 1887. He studied with Ernst Schmidt and his uncle Heinrich Th. Heberlein. Still in his teens, he emigrated to Philadelphia and by 1909 he had his own shop in Chicago. Shortly after this beautiful violin was made he moved to St Louis where he finished his career in the late 1940’s.
This strikingly beautiful violin has an unusual “flamed” spruce top.