In 1987 Marcelle Hall returned a Stradivarius her husband had stolen in 1936 & got this type of fee, $263,000
It had been stolen in 1936 from the Carnegie Hall dressing room of ... it for $100 
the night of the theft from a man whoas Hall recalls her husband's ... a deal for 
return of the Strad this spring, which includes a substantial reward for herself.