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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 1122919, member: 12007&quot;]No, not entirely ..a colleague bought it for ~$500 at auction, where it was sold as &quot;a cane containing a violin bow&quot; ...three of us were standing outside the auction when one of us noticed that the two rings could slide off ..and when they did, the cane separated into the two halves and we all saw the violin! None of us, including the buyer or the auctioneer had seen it before!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d been a violinist as a kid so I bugged the buyer to sell it to me, feigning sentimentality etc, so he finally agreed to sell it to me for a good profit, $2000.00</p><p><br /></p><p>I then sold it on for considerably more. Whenever I but something else from him, even all these years later, he always says ..&quot;it&#039;s not like the violin cane, is it?&quot; and I have to reassure him that the object on the block is just a run-of-the-mill item and nothing special ..even though it might be!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie84" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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