The Baron Knoop, ex-Bevan Stradivarius is a violin made by the celebrated luthier Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy in 1715.
Greiner through the agency of Wurlitzer in New York, the W. E. Hill firm in London, proposed that the violin be named for their customer, Baron Knoop.
Several instruments by the great master luthiers bear the sobriquet Baron Knoop, including another Stradivari of 1715, the Alard-Knoop.
In their 1902 publication of Antonio Stradivari His Life and Work, while in the possession of London banker F.L.
Greiner, 1928; J. Frank Otwell, 1944; Raymond Cerf, 1954; Rony Rogoff, 1980; David L. Fulton, 1992.