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Carlo Pizzamiglio

Highest auction price

£3,190

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin Sesto Cremonese, 1979 Fri 1st October 2004 £1,909
Violin Sesto Cremonese, 1944 'Prison camp' Fri 1st October 2004 £509
Violin 1944 Wed 1st October 2003 £589
Violin 1976 Mon 1st May 2000 £3,190
Violin 1983 Fri 1st June 1984 £815
Biographies

John Dilworth

PIZZAMIGLIO, Carlo Born 1914 Sesto ed Uniti, died 1992 Cortetano Italy. Trained as a cabinetmaker. Self-taught violin maker from 1932. Made some 40 instruments with improvised tools and materials while a prisoner of war in Egypt 1941-1945. Subsequently established in Cortetano. Personal model. Spirit varnish. Carlo Pizzamiglio / Sesto Cremonese – Italy / Fece anno 1979 Carlo Pizzamiglio/ Cortetano – Cremona – / fece in Italia – l’anno 1949 Carlo Pizzamiglio / Sesto ed Uniti / Cremona Italia – Fece in Egitto / l’anno 1942. Campo 309. P.O.W.

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