In 1987 Marcelle Hall returned a Stradivarius her husband had stolen in 1936 & got this type of fee, $263,000
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Charles Beare, a British Stradivarius specialist, traveled to Hall's... [DOC] [TLE] history of joshua's violin - Island Packet [PAR] Stradivarius that had been stolen in 1936 from the Polish violinist Bronislaw ... the 
secretary got word to Huberman about the missing violin before the ... Wicks 
family was musically attuned with Mrs. Wicks playing the piano and her husband 
making ...