A fiddle worth more than gold: Investing in strings

As an investment, rare violins such as those made by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu have consistently and dramatically outperformed both gold and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Between 1960 and 2008 the price of Stradivarii increased 26,083 percent. Gold, in comparison, increased by 2,529 percent and the DJIA by only 1,425 percent.…