On Friday 18 October 2013, a violin sold at an auction in Wiltshire, England for £900,000 ($1,457,000). It was not one of the famous Stradivarius instruments, in fact it was not even a particularly high quality violin, just an average old fiddle. It’s condition also left much to be desired. The metalwork had rusted, and… Read More

Ada Constance Kent was an English actress who enjoyed a degree of success in both stage and screen productions in the early decades of the twentieth century. Given her relative fame at the time, it is rather surprising that comparatively little seems to be known about her early life. Ada was born around 1880, and… Read More