A beautiful and rare English Bass just showed up on the market. My first thoughts were that it reminded me of the attributed Dodd I had a few years back which we never really confirmed its identity. The following morning after this new find was posted Anthony Houska of the Contrabass Shoppe emailed me to tell me just about the same thing. This new find by George Craske is of similar work to my attr. Dodd. Not exact but close enough in my opinion to warrant mentioning it. Mr. Houska is quite certain that my old bass was by Craske as well.
Here is the Craske;
Here is the link to the former attributed Dodd it resembles.
Craske reportedly made only about 20 double basses and is also listed as an out-worker or supplier to Dodd. We were never able to make out the Stamp on the Back as one shop thought it said 'Betts' but it clearly didn't match the other stamps of Betts.
Maybe the stamp is from Craske, I don't know.