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DUDE, WHERE’S MY STRAD?

Five tales of rare instruments gone missing

The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius

EST. VALUE: $10-$15 million

The 1713 violin, one of Antonio Stradivari’s best, disappears from Bronislaw Huberman’s dressing room during a 1936 concert. Five decades later, an ailing musician named Julian Altman confesses: The fiddle he’d played at clubs

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