It is a sale with the taste of revenge for Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri.
Between 11 a.m. (New York time), this Wednesday, March 15, and 2 p.m. the next day, one of the emblematic violins of this great rival of Antonio Stradivari will be auctioned off.
The public online auction, organized by the New York auction house Tarisio on behalf of the heirs of the Chinese businessman Sau-Wing Lam (amateur violinist and collector of old instruments who died in 1988), is already announced with a starting estimate of at least $10 million!
But the instrument in question, dated 1731 and baptized the "Baltique", could, according to the experts of this company specializing in the sale of rare instruments of the quartet, reach record prices.
And beat the one previously held by the famous Stradivarius “Lady Blunt”:
"It's been thirty years since we've seen a Guarnerius like this...
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