Stradivari Cello Not Sold at Auction
Published November 1st, 2008
A 300 year old cello by Antonio Stradivari that had been expected to sell for between $1.47 million and $1.97 million, failed to sell in a Tarisio online auction.
A spokesman for Tarisio said, “We are now working to put together an after-auction sale with interested parties.”
The cello is named the “Fleming” for its most recent owner, the late British cellist Amaryllis Fleming, who died in 1999 and was the sister of James Bond author Ian Fleming. It is being sold by her family and the proceeds are to go to the Royal College of Music in London where she studied and taught.
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