Record-braking $3.54 Million for Stradivarius Violin

         (Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

The record was made by the approximately 300-year-old musical instrument at an auction of May 16 in New York.

The instrument, made in 1707 by Italian violinmaker Antonio Stradivari, sold at Christie’s auction house for $3,544,000 after less than five minutes of bidding.

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