William Henley's Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers
states the following about the maker.
Ch.J.B.COLLIN-MEZIN. Born Mirecourt 1870.
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Son and collaborator to his father who bears the same names. Worked at Mirecourt from 1900 after some time spent working in America. Officier de L'Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1911. Won considerable success with the exceptional gifts of neat workmanship of violins, violas and cellos, imitive of his fathers style. Varnish somewhat Italian in appearance. Worked at Mirecourt 1925, but continued the use of Parisian labels. Supposed to have made violins in later years of more individualistic character.
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