Jrme Thibouville-Lamy Firm Bow maker / Violin maker (. 1857 1968) The largest of the great Mirecourt instrument making firms. In 1957 Jrme Thibouville joined forces with Charles Buthod and Charles-Claude Husson to form Husson-Buthod-Thibouville. When Jrme Thibouville married Marguerite Hyacinthe Lamy in 1861, the firm changed its name to the now-famous Jrme Thibouville-Lamy (J.T.L.). The firm became the largest of the Mirecourt violin-making factories at its peak, it produced over 150,000 instruments annually and employed 1,000 craftsmen. The firm had different lines of instruments, including student instruments (eg the Mdio-Fino and Compagnon ranges) and copies of makers ranging from Stainer and Klotz to Stradivari, as well as instruments named after old violin making-families from Mirecourt and other French makers. The J.T.L. firm closed its factories in 1968 after the Mirecourt instrument-making industry went into terminal decline in the mid 20th century. The back in two matching pieces of maple of faint curl, the ribs similar. The pegbox and scroll of plain maple. the front in two matching pieces of spruce of medium-broad grain. The varnish of a warm orange-brown colour on an amber ground. Labelled Copie de Antoinus Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat 1721 Length of back 761mm Width upper bout 346mm Width middle bout 238mm Width lower bout 446mm.