More on the Lady Blunt violin from Tarisio Complete coverage: Disaster in Japan. The Nippon Music Foundation bought the violin in 2008 for more than $10 million.

In this photo taken in 2008 and released by Nippon Music Foundation, "Lady Blunt," a 1721 Stradivarius violin, is shown in Tokyo. S. Yokoyama / AP ...

The ‘Lady Blunt’ was offered for sale this year by The Nippon Music Foundation, owners of a number of the world’s finest Stradivari and Guarneri instruments.

The nonprofit Nippon Foundation said Tuesday the proceeds from selling the nearly 300-year-old violin known as the Lady Blunt will go to relief projects in northern Japan. The group’s music ...

The 1721 violin is being sold by the Nippon Music Foundation, with the entire proceeds going to their Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. The Lady Blunt set a record price every ...

The classical music advocacy group owns 19 Stradivari violins, ... Before its 2008 sale to the Nippon Foundation, the Lady Blunt fetched about $200,000 US at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1971.

The violin was offered for sale by the Nippon Music Foundation, ... The Lady Blunt fetched a then-record £84,000 when it was last auctioned at Sotheby's in 1971. More on this story.

In 2008, Nippon Music paid more than $10 million for a 1721 violin built by Antonio Stradivari in a private sale. The instrument, named "Lady Blunt" for an early owner, the English aristocrat ...

Japan’s Nippon Foundation, owners of the most valuable collection of musical instruments in the world, is to sell the crown jewel of its collection, the Lady Blunt Stradivari violin, at open auction ...

Built in 1721 by Antonio Stradivari, the well-preserved violin sold for a record-breaking sum at auction in 1971. Now, it's poised to repeat that feat. This week, the Nippon Music Foundation in ...

The ‘Lady Blunt’ was offered for sale this year by The Nippon Music Foundation, owners of a number of the world’s finest Stradivari and Guarneri instruments.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tarisio, the online auction house for fine instruments, sold the ‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius violin of 1721 for a world-record price of £9,808,000 ($15,894,000) at ...