Notes:

". . . It [the violin] was lost during the second world war, only to be brought [sic] for a fraction of its value in the early seventies by a violinist from an American orchestra touring Italy. He purchased it as a "nice Italian violin", and you can imagine his surprise when experts told him he had in fact made the deal of a lifetime!"

Elective Affinities: Tributes to Antonio Stradivari by well-known players & experts, Mark Kaplan, The Strad, December, 1987, London