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The violin, known as The Penny, was sold to unidentified buyer for $1.3 million. 
 
Source:  Bloomberg 
 
Two years ago a 1729 Stradivari violin was sold at Christie’s auction house for $3.5 million, which was a record price for a musical instrument at the time. It still is.
 
On April 4, 2008 another Stradivari violin made in 1700 and known [...]

The Villa Fontanelle on the shores of Lake Como, which before his tragic death on July 15, 1997, belonged to a famous designer Gianni Versace, is sold to yet another Russian – Arkady Novikov, reports The Times Online.
 
Mostly unoccupied for the last 10 years, it’s ready to open its doors to a new owner who, [...]

If you enjoy drinking wine and proudly display your collection of rare spirits or store it in carefully temperature regulated wine cellar, you, probably, know a lot about which wine to buy and drink right away, and which wine to hold on to.
 
If you wish you knew all this, but don’t, read an article in [...]

If you already know all about “Photoshop” and how to use it, you probably, won’t get too exited from the news, that today Adobe announced a public beta version of Adobe Photoshop Express.
 
As for those of you who are wondering how to make a color photograph look black and white, a photo to resemble a [...]

If you are ready for a vacation, but the prospect of surfing thru a multitude of travel sites to find a good deal does not appeal to you as a good way to plan your adventures or a quiet beach time, try to do your search from just one place: www.bookingbuddy.com.
 
Once you enter all your [...]

Everybody heard about the island of Montecristo. It was the book we all read in our childhood, it was the place we all wanted to be in, if only to find the treasure.
 
Some people think – it’s a mystical place, which Alexandre Dumas invented for the beautiful and scary story of The Count of Monte [...]

photo credit: biskuit
 
 
Since we are on the subject of wine tasting (see my post Nose Insurance: $8 Million), I think you should know, that according to a study conducted by the team of researchers of Stanford University, “The more wine costs, the more people enjoy it, regardless of how it tastes”.
 
They also concluded, that [...]

Could you loose a job if you break your nose? I am sure it is very painful and unpleasant experience: aesthetically and time and money wise. The hassle of visiting the hospitals, time off work, missing some outdoors activities, and, most important, how will you look afterwards and what it would take financially and emotionally [...]

One more interesting find for the art appreciating crowd and the collectors of Asian art alike, appeared briefly to be admired at Christie’s action house and was sold for a record for Japanese art sum: $14.3 millions.
 
An elegant wooden statue (believed to be 800 years old) of Buddha, bearing additional treasures entombed in its inside: [...]

With the tax season in a full swing please, keep in mind, that IRS is too busy as it is, and does not make any unusual requests over the Internet. If you get email, asking for your personal information so the promised tax refund can be processed faster, DO NOT Respond.
 
The personal information, if provided, [...]