VIOLIN SELLS FOR OVER $2 MILLION
A Stradivari violin yesterday (02APR07) fetched $2.73 million (£1.4 million) at Christie’s auction house in New York - about twice what it was expected to sell for.
An anonymous bidder bagged the instrument, made in 1729 and described as "a bargain" by the buyer’s agent RIC HEINL.
Last year (MAY06), another violin made by ANTONIO STRADIVARI set the world record auction price for a musical instrument, when sold for $3.54 million (£1.82 million).
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