Stradivari Violin May Sell For Record-Breaking Price

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 24th 2006 at 9:56PM

Last year, the Lady Tennant Stradivari violin broke record by selling for $2.03 million. This May, once again at Christie's, another Stradivari violin may well break that record. The violin, known by the indelicate name of the "The Hammer" after the 19th century Swedish collector Christian Hammer, has been given a pre-sale estimate of between $1.5 million and $2.5 million. "The Hammer" was made in 1707. This is significant because 1700 to 1720 was the master's "golden period." The Lady Tennant was created in 1699 so The Hammer may bring in a little more money than that violin.

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