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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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 Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:12 am Post subject: Violinist loses $1.9m Stradivarius |
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A musician who went into a central London sandwich store to buy something to eat has had a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth 1.9 million stolen, police said on Monday.
British Transport Police have launched a public appeal to get the rare instrument back and the musician�s insurer, Lark Insurance Broking Group, has offered a $23,600 reward for information leading to its recovery.
Detective Inspector Andy Rose said the theft took place on the evening of Monday, November 29, outside Euston train station.
After going to a Pret A Manger cafe, the violinist noticed her violin case had been taken and called the police.
Inside the case was a 1696 Antonio Stradivarius antique violin as well as a Peccatte bow, valued at $100,000, and another bow made by the School of Bazin valued at more than $7,800.
�These items hold enormous sentimental and professional value for the victim,� Rose said in a statement.
�But although they are extremely valuable, it would be very difficult to sell them on as they are so rare and distinctive that they will be easily recognized as stolen property.
�It�s possible the instrument will be offered for sale within the antique or musical trade and we ask anyone who has any knowledge of the violin�s whereabouts to come forward so it can be returned to its rightful owner.�
The police did not name the classical musician, but British media reported that the violin�s owner was 32-year-old Korean-born Kym Min-Jin. British Transport Police were not immediately available to comment on the identity of the victim. (Reuters) |
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101207000630
so my questions are these..
1st: how did this 32 year old girl get a violin worth 2 million dollars?
2nd: why was she carrying it around like its a violin worth 100 bucks?
yeah, just cruise into subways and sit down with a 2 million dollar 400 year old antique priceless violin like its nothing..
still, who steals violins? seems to me she was targeted. |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Crackheads amd tweakers will steal anything. They hit the jackpot with this one. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| It never says she was just carrying it around willy-nilly. It could have been stolen from her studio, or apartment... who knows? |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
| It never says she was just carrying it around willy-nilly. It could have been stolen from her studio, or apartment... who knows? |
It said she went to a cafe for something to eat and noticed it missing so she called the police. Being that your bags in public seem very safe in Korea, I can see her not having vigilance to survive in a big Western city. Where did a 32 year old Korean get a 300 year old violin worth $1.9 million bucks? Her rich daddy most likely purchased it with some of the new money sloshing into Korea's manufacturing export industries. If you got a money man batting for you, you get all the cherry picked honey, but you still have to watch your assets. I'm betting the thief knew it's valuable by the looks of what is probably a very special looking expensive case so the opportunist thief acted in less than 5 seconds seeing no one was looking. Seems like the insurance company will suffer the most for it's just a material thing from old Europe where it's just a social status piece to someone from the East. To a Westerner, the historical significance of this instrument is sentimentally great for our ancestors may have played it and heard it. Regardless why and how a Korean was so careless with it, she has rights to it. Maybe rich girl's daddy needs to hire someone to watch her back since such a sheltered Korean wouldn't have street smarts to exercise the vigilance required to be alone? |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| This happened before, a year or so ago. Some guy left one of about �200k on a fricking train. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| I'd venture to say that these stolen violins usually end up in some private collector's hands. What say you? |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:03 am Post subject: |
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My bet is that she was a con artist bent on playing the "fiddle game." Somehow she just missed the... (wait for it)... MARK!
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| She was probably targeted. Items like this are well known in the music world and also their owners and location. the sale of a good Strad often will be reported in the media. Koreans are great lovers of music and have made their mark in classical music. There are a lot of very very good Korean violinist. Almost all of the great symphony orchestras have Korean violinist. I noticed when I worked in a Hagwon that many of my students carried violin cases. One of the things i love about Koreans was their love for music and their love for Western classical music. Not surprising that a Korean would own a Stradivarius.. Sad that it will end up in a collection instead of being played in public. I heard a Stradivarius played in upstate new York and as untrained as i am i could tell a difference in the quality of the sound. Just a gorgeous machine. |
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Murakano
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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be hard to sell it, but yes perhaps a private collector had his eye on it, and thought that would be an easy target, a 32 year old Korean girl who just carries it around with not a care in the world.
the private collector probably paid some thieves 10.000dollars to follow her and snatch it, now its sitting in his private collection...never to be seen by those in the know who would recognize it, it will probably surface again 100 years from now ahahahhaha |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| The police did not name the classical musician, but British media reported that the violin�s owner was 32-year-old Korean-born Kym Min-Jin. British Transport Police were not immediately available to comment on the identity of the victim. (Reuters) |
This part is (typically for the Herald) confusing. The Korean woman is the owner, but is she the victim, or the musician or both? It's common for instruments like this to be owned by someone other than the musician playing it, since they are worth so much, and even the most famous orchestra in the world doesn't pay its members that well. |
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murmanjake
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| The police did not name the classical musician, but British media reported that the violin�s owner was 32-year-old Korean-born Kym Min-Jin. British Transport Police were not immediately available to comment on the identity of the victim. (Reuters) |
This part is (typically for the Herald) confusing. The Korean woman is the owner, but is she the victim, or the musician or both? It's common for instruments like this to be owned by someone other than the musician playing it, since they are worth so much, and even the most famous orchestra in the world doesn't pay its members that well. |
Well seeing as the musician wasn't named, but the owner was, I figure they are separate.
Then again, who was the victim then? The musician who let it be stolen? In that case it would just be redundant(i know korea herald) to state that police wouldn't "comment on their identity' after previously stating that police "did not name the musician." Or maybe there was a third, more idealized victim. Like the Classical Music Community or something. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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The Korean gal has rich parents, what's so hard to believe about that?  |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/12/08/2010120800810.html
It's on a long term loan to the violinist. Looks like she grew up in London. Interesting thing is she seems to be a Korean in citizenship only, looks like she grew up in London. So I think she wasn't your typical naive Korean girl that would leave her purse on the table to get her sandwich. But then again it seems she had quite a privileged upbringing. |
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