Stradivari also almost certainly didn't speak English.

Many Strad copies, especially from the 19th and early 20th centuries, don't have the actual maker's name anywhere on them. Also, even though most countries required country of origin labels for imported goods by some point in the early 20th century (the US required them in 1891), sometimes the country of origin was printed on a separate label that went somewhere not easily visible through the F hole. That's the case for the violin I inherited from my great-uncle: the main label is just an imitation Stradivari label, and there's a second, smaller label reading "West Germany" in a different location. If there's no country of origin label anywhere, it could mean the violin was made before such labeling was required, or it could possibly mean that the violin was not intended for export and was originally sold in the same country where it was made.