5Antonio Stradivari’s ‘Hammer’ Violin – $3.544 million
As you well know, Antonio Stradivari created some of the best violins in the world.
And one of his masterpieces was owned by a 19th-century Swedish collector named Christian Hammer.
The violin was in possession of various people, and one of them was Japanese violinist Kyoko Takezawa, who use it for 12 years.
In 2006, the ‘Hammer’ was sold at an auction for a whopping price of $3.544 million.
