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45 million dollars for a Strad viola?

 
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:41 am    Post subject: 45 million dollars for a Strad viola? Reply with quote

45 million dollars for a Strad viola?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/arts/music/for-sale-playing-a-heady-tune.html?_r=1
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the Russian oligarchs are tied up in sanctions, who will bid?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Taiwanese.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, the Taiwanese. One of the atractions of the viola is that a Stradivari quartet can be formed, and it is hard since the number of Strad violas is so small.
The form of the sale (sealed bids) sounds rather strange to me.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I take it the 49 million is a declared reserve? Only the highest bid that his higher than 49 million will win the auction?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I think it is that.
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