Certificates & Documents

• Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2002) Gives a date of 1677 for the last ring before the purfling, plus four rings for the edge. This suggests that the violin cannot have been made before the mid-1680s, and was therefore almost certainly not made in Cremona, as Alfred Hill suggests.
• Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1934)
• Letter: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1934) States that the instrument to be 'an interesting and characteristic example' of the early work of Pietro Guarneri.
• Certificate: Emil Herrmann, New York, New York, NY (1918) Attributes the instrument to Andrea Guarneri

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.)

References

• Sotheby's Musical Instruments Auction Catalog, June 11, 2002, London, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London (illustrated)