It has a unique feature - a tiny heart-shaped cut-out on the back of the 'scroll' at the top end of the instrument. Richard White, from JP Guivier, one of London's few professional violin dealers, has ...

Also, a heart-shaped cut in the ‘scroll’ at the top end of the violin makes it easily identifiable and therefore difficult to sell on. Meanwhile, violin sellers have been warned about the theft.

It has a unique feature - a tiny heart-shaped cut-out on the back of the 'scroll' at the top end of the instrument. Richard White, from JP Guivier, one of London's few professional violin dealers ...

It has a unique feature - a tiny heart-shaped cut-out on the back of the 'scroll' at the top end of the instrument. David Lopez Ibanez The violin has a distinctive heart shape cut into the 'scroll ...