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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Hiding in plain sight: the case of the stolen ‘Mendelssohn’ Stradivari
A 1709 Stradivari that belonged to the Mendelssohn family of Berlin had been missing for nearly eighty years. It was rediscovered last summer, hiding in plain sight.
By Jason PriceThis is a fascinating story and it speaks volumes about how much the violin industry has changed in the past thirty years. Today, we have publicly accessible archives, information is shared generously among colleagues and the standards of due diligence in certifying and selling instruments are much, much higher. Tarisio and the Cozio archive have […]
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