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    Quote Originally Posted by Katia View Post
    every violin is an antique and a genuine Stradivarius
    I have my grandfather's fiddle, it has one of those Stradivarius labels in it.

    I found out that back in the 1920s those were made in Chicago and sold for $24...a dozen.

    What it was, if you signed up for violin lessons with one of the itinerant violin teachers you pre-paid for a certain number of lessons and the violin was included in the price.

    They made and distributed thousands of those $2 Strads, and 9 times out of 10 if you come across an old violin in an antique shop it's one of those.

    Quote Originally Posted by Katia View Post
    every spinning wheel is from 1800 (or earlier)
    I never heard of the spinning wheel thing, that's funny.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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