Leeds in the 1970s: The story of a housewife and a Guarnerius violin
It was a name mentioned on a television programme in the 1970s which struck a familiar chord with a Leeds housewife.
The name was Joseph Guarnerius.
And Marjorie Turnbull thought it could spell a fortune for her husband Norman.
Guarnerius was a violin maker - second only to Stradivarius - and it was his name she had seen inside a dust-covered violin on top of her wardrobe.
Mrs. Turnbull from Stratford Terrace in Beeston was trying to get the instrument valued in February 1973.
If genuine it could have fetched up to £11,000 in a salesroom.
She said: "It's exciting. It will be a big disappointment if it's not genuine but we won't have lost anything."
But the mother-of-three, whose husband was a garage manager, may have her hopes dashed.
An expert at Sotheby's in London said: "You have an infinitely better chance of making a major win on the pools than of coming across a genuine Guarnerius.”
He said copies has been mass-produced in the 19th century and now there were millions of violins with false labels inside them.
* Guarnerius violins often have a darker, more robust, and more sonorous tone than Stradivari's. Fewer than 200 of Guarneri's instruments survive.
The Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù violin became one of the most sought-after instruments in the world in 2016 when it sold for $15.8 million.
In 2017, the Guarneri violin was given to the acclaimed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, who has been performing on this precious violin to this day.