THE AGED STRINGLESS FIDDLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1243, 27 September 1911, Page 9

THE AGED STRINGLESS FIDDLE.

• Mrs. Cotton of the Admiral Benbow Inn,.-Bui'tori-on-Trent,'has just sold for ■£800 a violin that came-into her possession'through' buying a pawnticket for half a crown. A broken-down musician offered her the ticket some rime ago and out of pure companion Mrs. Cotirn bought it. Tho old man was taken dying (o, the infirmarv and. just before tho o'nd ho sent for Mrs. Cotton and informed her that tho violin had belonged t'o his grandfather a hundred years ago. Mrs. Cotton redeemed the instrument, and it was put with other rubbish in a lumber room. One day the conversation iu h?r home turned on violins, and she brought out the aged, stringless fiddle ,A musician present declared it to be' a real "Strad." The landlady would not believe that the violin had any value until a dealer called upon her aad offered £50 for it. Then she decided to send it to a proper firm for , valuation, with'the result above stated. The correspondent who tells the story says that tho violin bore tho inscription: "Antonius Stradi-va-rius Civmonentis faciebat. ■ Anno 1721." ■"■. . .'..:.'.:

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