The Strangest Items to Go Up for Auction

Violin from the Titanic

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This very important antique violin belonged to Wallace Hartley, the bandleader who played upon the Titanic until it sank into the Atlantic. The auctioning of this violin lasted for 10 minutes and was sold at $1,250,000.

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Kimberly Atwood’s books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Kimberly lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical research, Kimberly got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Ohio State University. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of London and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships with some really important people who are way too dignified to be named here. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

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