Stradivarius violin takes £1.6m at London auction
A rare violin made in 1684 by Antonio Stradivari sold for £1.6m at a recent sale at London specialists Ingles & Hayday, the third highest price ever achieved at auction for an instrument by the great Italian luthier.
Estimated at £1.3m-2m, the firm’s director Tim Ingles opened the bidding at £1m and it was eventuall…