The Cozio Archive
Welcome to Cozio, the world’s largest reference resource for buyers, sellers and connoisseurs of fine stringed instruments and bows.
Founded in 2003 as a public registry of iconography, provenance and pricing information for historical stringed instruments, Cozio encompasses over 36,000 individual instruments and bows by over 3,500 makers. It is also the most comprehensive online source for maker biographies and provenance information, and contains over 57,000 historical auction prices.
Although most of Cozio is available to the public by subscription, it also contains photographs, documents and records of instruments and bows that are accessible only by request. If you would like information about any item that is not publicly available, please contact us.
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The elephant in the room: An expert forgery by Jack Lott
Lot 59 in our March auction blurs the boundaries of imitation and forgery. Throughout its history, this beguiling violin has been repeatedly bought, sold and certified as a genuine Guarneri.
By Jason Price and Michael A. BaumgartnerThis may be the only article you’ll ever read about a counterfeit Guarneri and a celebrity circus elephant. How can they possibly be related? Well, it just so happens that one of the most talented imitators (or forgers, if you prefer) of Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù had a career interlude training an unruly circus elephant […]
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