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Originally Posted by John Delventhal
Okay so correct me if I am wrong but what I got from that is this...
Leon Mortin learned from the Vuillaume School along with Claudot and Bazin. And was most likely a later successor to Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.
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No. Vuillaume is a name of many. NOT JB Vuillaume as implied. There was a firm/factory named Vuillaume, Darte & Cunin taken over by Martin Le'on. That is different from Leon Mortin unless it's a typo in the book. In either case NOTHING to do with JB Vuillaume or Claudot or Bazin. They just lived and worked in the same country but probably never knew each other by dates alone. The Firm above is from Mirecourt, late 19th century. An Auguste Darte worked with and supposedly succeded N.Vuillaume and worked with JB as well. Darte did, not Mortin! NF Vuillaume was his brother and finished his life in Brussels, succeded by G.Mougenot. Mirecourt was a place with many family ties and connections by trade. A tangled web if you look close enough. L.Mortin/Martin (same guy?) came later I believe. I cannot find any listing for a 'Leon' MartIn so it must be a typo for Mortin OR, a fake. Fakers often copy mistakes in spelling from books or make new ones of their own.
Show the bass. This is just talk up until now.