Giovanni Battista Grancino I, Milan, 1696

Cello: 41985

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Labeled, "Giovanni Grancino in Contrada Largha di Milano al segno della Cornoa 1696."

Back: One-piece cut on the slab, with a wing in the lower right bout

Top: of narrow grain, with wings in the lower bouts

Scroll: plain, possibly not original

Ribs: of narrower grain

Varnish: Reddish-brown over a golden ground

Length of back: 76.8 cm

Upper bouts: 35.2 cm

Middle bouts: 24.3 cm

Lower bouts: 43.2 cm

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Notes:

"Expert X questioned if it is a composite. Expert X valued at $200,000 to $250,000."

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Report of the Trustee Review Panel concerning the Golden Age Collection, December 16, 2004

"Scroll may be a replacement. The date 1656 is given in the Machold documents. This is a misreading of 1696."

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Collection brochure from Violin Advisor, LLC

Provenance

until 2002	Dr. M. L. Nieland
in 2002	Geigenbau Machold
2002-2003	Dr Herbert R. Axelrod
2003-2007	New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
from 2007	Current owner

Insurance valuation: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (2002) Values the instrument at $640,000.

Cozio holds copies of many certificates and other documents, some of which are available to view on request. Please contact us if you wish to view a particular document. (Note that we do not always have permission to share documents.)

Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod (illustrated)
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Collection brochure from Violin Advisor, LLC, April, 2007
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Report of the Trustee Review Panel concerning the Golden Age Collection, December 16, 2004