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Scan 12
The violin : how to choose one, 1893
4 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 8. See the scan on archive.org.
1an old fiddle for sale in Nottingham, and went to see it. The old man to whom it belonged asked £10 for it, so I bought it. Then he told me that two of these experts had been to see it, and both said they would come again, but their chance was gone, as I took it with me, and when it was done up I sold it for £60. It was a grand old Amatise Strad, but badly out of order. After I bought it, I soon had a note from one of these experts to know the price of it, but I gave him no reply. He could not depend on his own judgment!"
3Whatever opinion the reader may form from these cases, it can do him no harm to gather all the knowledge he can on the subject.
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