Thursday, June 12, 2014

$10m Stradivarius violin found in New York heiress Huguette Clark's wardrobe


The home of eccentric copper heiress Huguette Clark has already turned out a trove of valuable items – a collection of jewellery including a rare pink 9-carat diamond fetched a total of $21 million at a Manhattan auction last year.

But three years after her death, aged 104, Huguette Clark's sprawling 42-room apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue has just revealed its rarest treasure yet.

A 1731 Stradivarius violin known as "The Kreutzer" after its former owner, French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, has been discovered in a closet, and is now expected to auction for between $7.5 million and $10m, the New York Post reported.

Christie's has begun accepting sealed bids ahead of a final deadline this Thursday.

“It would be the one violin that Kreutzer held most special to him and would retain it throughout his life,” said a spokesman for Christie's.

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$10m Stradivarius violin found in New York heiress Huguette Clark's wardrobe

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5 comments:

  1. Who outed the Strad? Was it being saved for something special?

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  2. My gosh, I can just imagine how the lawyers feasted on her estate while she was alive....

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  3. This is so suspicious just think what was lifted from her estate during this time.

    Feeding Frenzy of the highest level and we're to believe this is what the heiress wanted living in a hospital room by choice.

    When a person of means is surrounded by a 10 story shark pool of lawyers who are billing billing billing all in the best interests of the protected one who has been behind closed doors the word 'believe' is not part of this story.

    Only God knows the full extent, the truth and the total amount Huguette Clark generated for the protection industry.

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  4. We may never know the real story of Huguette Clark and why she lived her final years in a hospital.

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  5. She was robbed and the courts sided with the robbers wrongly.

    The standard to be used on fraud is the statute of limitations is triggered when the fraud is discovered not when it started.

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