Pawn shop buys $250,000 violin for $50

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A new employee at a Massachusetts pawnshop paid $50 for a violin that turned out to be worth 5,000 times that amount. A local television reports said the employee at LBC Boutique and Loan had no idea what he was buying when he paid $50 for a Ferdinando Gagliano violin, which was hand built in 1759. The…