Certificates & Documents

• Insurance valuation: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (2002) Values the instrument at $1.4 million.
• Certificate: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (2002) "This violoncello is a fine example of the maker’s work.”
• Certificate: Till Kulla (1990)
• Certificate: John & Arthur Beare, London (1983)
• Certificate: John & Arthur Beare, London (1983) “. . . the violoncello is a fine old Italian instrument, in our judgement the work of Matteo Gofriller of Venice, c. 1690 …This cello, characteristic of the early period of the maker’s work and originally of larger size ….”
• Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey Dating the youngest tree ring to 1622.

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

• Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod (illustrated)
• 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
• Private Papers
• Working-Class Orchestra, World-Class Fiddles, 12-11-2004