WILHELMJ’S VIOLIN.
The Stradiuarius violin which Herr Wilhelmj used during a portion of his career as soloist, and particularly in the United States, has been sold to Herr Kupferschmidt, a musician of Chicago. The price paid is said to be £2OOO. Violins, indeed, almost invariably fetch more at sale by private contract than at auction. Ho violin, even those by the great old masters, has, we believe, ever had a bid of anything like £IOOO at auction in Britain,
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Southern Cross, Volume 7, Issue 36, 2 December 1899, Page 7
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79WILHELMJ’S VIOLIN. Southern Cross, Volume 7, Issue 36, 2 December 1899, Page 7
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