A Stradivari violin sold for just over two million dollars at auction in New York, smashing the previous world record for a musical instrument.
The violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1699, the year before his golden period, was sold by Christie’s for 2,032,000 dollars, far above its pre-sale high estimate of 1.2 million dollars.
The previous world auction record for a musical instrument was 1.8 million dollars, for a Stradivari violin sold at Christie’s in London in 1990.
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