Found this post on WCBS New Radio Website here in NY.
Goodness.
Posted: Monday, 02 April 2007 8:21PM
Stradivari Violin Sold for $2.7 Mill.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A centuries-old Stradivari violin was sold Monday for more than $2.7 million, well above its presale estimated worth, Christie's auction house said.
The 1729 instrument, known as the Solomon, Ex-Lambert, went to an anonymous bidder in the auction house's fine musical instruments sale. Its price, $2,728,000 including the Christie's commission, far outpaced its estimated value: $1 million to $1.5 million.
Also beating expectations was a cittern, a string instrument similar to a guitar, believed to have been made at the turn of the 17th century. Despite an estimated value of $4,000 to $6,000, it sold for $180,000 to the National Music Museum at The University of South Dakota.
Last year, another Stradivarius sale broke the world record for the most paid for a musical instrument at auction, according to Christie's. That violin, known as The Hammer, went for more than $3.5 million.
Instruments made by Italian violinmaker Antonio Stradivari are highly prized and only rarely come to auction.
The violin auctioned Monday got its name from its two most recent owners: Murray Lambert, a British concert violinist in the 1920s and '30s, and Seymour Solomon, an amateur violinist and a co-founder of Vanguard Records.
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