Record Price For Violin
I (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. June 23. A Stradivarius violin known as the “Dancla" was sold in London today for what is believed to be the record price of £Bl9O. It had been sent for sale by Mr Siefrid Kahl, 78-year-old German diamond merchant living in Geneva, and was bought by Mr Jim Reno, a Manchester dealer in musical instruments. The previous record price for a Stradivarius in London was £3300 in 1957. The "Dancla.” named after Charles Dancla, a French violinist. who owned it for over 20 years in the last century, was made by Antonio Stradivari at Cremona in 1703.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28930, 25 June 1959, Page 17
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