Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Typed Letter Signed, "A. Einstein," to Donald Hopf, in German, assisting in the sale of a violin, by offering to write a letter on his behalf, and by enclosing [not present] a suggestion from German-American musicologist Alfred Einstein. 1 page, 4to; some fading to signature but quite legible, folds; matted with a portrait and framed. Princeton, 9 October 1940
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Klaus Dietrich (K. Donald) Hopf (1918-1972) was the violinist son of Ludwig Hopf, Einstein's friend and physicist collaborator. The younger Hopf owned a 1771 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, which is possibly the violin mentioned in the present letter.