Fancy Pants, Thanks. I don't have a fiber optic light to look. May have to look into Harbor Freight maybe.
I am thinking my grandfather's violin may be a Wilhelm Duerer version from 1895 or early 1900s. I sure do want to find out. I don't know much about my grandfather, he died in 1935 from a strangulated hernia, he wouldn't get repaired, because he didn't want to go into debt to pay. My dad and uncle tried to get him to have surgery, and both had felt bad years afterward. I know that it was only my grandfather's fault he didn't have the surgery, though I can understand not wanting to give his family debt.
I know my grandfather must have liked boxing matches. Some 1920s newspaper articles I found, and still have are cutouts of boxing events of the popular boxers of the time.
I have two chests of my grandfathers, my dad never would part with these. They were heavy to move, but they contain some of his craftsmen tools he used at Fisher Body, he was one of the craftsmen for these men, before they became the design team for General Motors.
I have not found any writings that my grandfather wrote, just of him. Maybe one day I will come across something.
Another thing is my uncle was a very fast shorthand reporter, in the army, and many notes that he wrote of the family are in short-hand though he would either write, type or even tape-record his shorthand later. I have much of that, but I don't know the language. I have books, but I need an extension on my life to spend the time on this great language of note-taking.
Pictures are of my grandfather's baptism paper I have, great shape from 1876 & the Fisher Body Craftmen shop, I have John Tomaszewski circled in red.