Found: one priceless violin.(News)

From: Pretoria News (South Africa) | Date: July 19, 2006 | Copyright information

BYLINE: Alex Eliseev

Marita Alexander clips open the violin case.

Nestled inside the faded blue velvet lies a family treasure she has hunted for nine years - a rare 18th century Carl Friedrich Lippold violin that was stolen from her son Waldo in 1997.

The violin is safe in her arms, and seems undamaged despite being sold around the country and eventually landing up in the US.

She runs her finger along a distinct, and familiar, kink in the...

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