Tuesday, May 3, 2011

"Lady Blunt" For Sale

the Lady Blunt
Neither a Lady nor a blunt, the Lady Blunt is one of the world's finest violins.  She was made in 1721 by Stradivarius.  The Nippon Music Foundation bought the instrument in 2008 for a cool $10 million.  Now Nippon is offering to sell the Lady Blunt to the highest bidder.  All of the proceeds from the sale will go to the reconstruction efforts in Northeastern Japan. 


The Lady Blunt derives her name from an early owner, Anne Isabella Noel Blunt,15th Baroness Wentworth. Besides the lasting legacy of this violin, she has also left her mark on the modern world through animal husbandry.  A devotee of Arabian Horses, she and her spouse traveled extensively collecting horses to be bred at their horse breeding farm, the Crabbet Arabian Stud. Almost all pure breed Arabian horses trace their ancestry back to the Crabbet Arabian Stud farm. Describing her deep love and passion for breeding horses, Lady Blunt said, "it would be an interesting and useful thing to do and I should like much to try it."
Lady Anne Blunt and Kassida
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  1. The MedievalistMay 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM

    Does the word "random" even come close to describing this brilliant blog on Blunt? (The horse obsession is a little Freudian, don't you think?)

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