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A ‘Golden Period’ Stradivari Violin Once Owned by Catherine the Great Could Sell for Millions of Dollars at Auction

A 1708 violin crafted by Antonio Stradivari, one of the greatest luthiers in history, will be offered for sale in New York on June 8 at Tarisio Fine Instruments and Bows. Once owned by Russian Empress ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 308-Year-Old Violin Could Become the Most Expensive Ever Sold

The violin has been called the ‘da Vinci’ for some time, but is called ‘da Vinci, Ex-Seidel’ since Toscha Seidel parted ways with it. Credit: Courtesy Tarisio If you have ever heard The Wizard of Oz’s ...
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An Extremely Rare, Centuries-Old Italian Violin Hit a High Note at Auction, Selling for a Whopping $9.44 Million

An exceptionally rare Guarneri violin—so fabled that it has its own name, the Baltic—sold for $9.44 million (premium included) at auction on March 16, just shy of its $10 million estimate. The final ...
Barron's

Nearly 300-Year-Old Guarneri Violin Could Achieve $10 Million at Auction

A rare, nearly 300-year-old violin that has been in the collection of the late businessman Sau-Wing Lam and exhibited twice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be auctioned at Tarisio ...
Anadolu Ajansi

The 'Lady Blunt' Stradivarius Violin Sets World Record Price at Tarisio Auction

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tarisio, the online auction house for fine instruments, sold the ‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius violin of 1721 for a world-record price of £9,808,000 ($15,894,000) at their June ...