Famous names feature from Bach to Henry VIII

The best-seller at $400,003 (£296,300)* in a recent sale at RR Auction was a doubly signed receipt in which Johann Sebastian Bach acknowledges payment of the sum of five guilders under the terms of Sabina Nathan’s legacy.

Sabina, who died in 1612, had made a bequest that ensured a motet would be sung in her memory ever…

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