’Stradivarius' for sale
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SEOUL, Jan. 16. A Korean cattle farmer has put up for sale a violin which he says is a Stradivarius bearing the signatures of Antonio Vivaldi and Nicolo Paganini. Mr Pu Chung Won, of Namwon, a small town 150 I miles south of Seoul, is askling SUSI.Sm for the violin, [and intends to use the money Ito expand his 30-strong herd. He claims he inherited the i violin from his grandfather, 'who obtained it in 1892 from la French missionary in exi change for five pieces of old I Korean pottery.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33435, 17 January 1974, Page 15
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