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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Latest Feature
Highlights from the New York July auction, part 2
Highlights from our July 2021 auction, including instruments by Camillo Camilli, Nicolo Gagliano and Carlo Antonio Testore
By Jason PriceLast week, I shared an overview of our July sale in New York. Today, I'm going to look more closely at a few of those instruments and their histories including the Camilli, Gagliano, Schweitzer, Fendt, Carletti and Alf. You can browse the full catalog and bid online now. The sale closes on July 8.
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