Cocker Cello Bow
date: label: date made
content: 1960-1965
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow was made by Lawrence Cocker in Derby, England, around 1960-1965. It is made of laminated cane with hardwood head and end, wood frog, metal tightening screw, and leather strip sewn on stick just in front of the frog. The bow is stamped:</p>
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content: <p>903574</p>
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content: <p>(and):</p>
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content: <p>L. Cocker</p>
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content: <p>The following is a description form a 1960s Cocker flyer:</p>
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content: <p>The LAWRENCE COCKER<br>BUILT CANE BOW</p>
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content: <p>Known to maker of fishing rod for over 150<br>years, the technique of building cane has only in<br>recent years been brought to a high degree of<br>perfection and performance by the development of modern adhesives.</p>
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content: <p>Full use of the “art” is made in the construc-<br>tion of these fine bows. The selected Tonkin cane<br>which is used, is made into strips triangular in<br>section. 6 of these are bonded together with the<br>resin adhesive to form a hexagonal stick, this is<br>oven tempered to specification and moulded to its<br>camber.</p>
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content: <p>This preformed stick is remarkable permanent<br>and less likely to distort or loose its set than the<br>solid wood bow bent by the use of heat.</p>
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content: <p>Beautiful grained hard wood is used for the<br>head and nut end of the stick, the contrasting<br>colour of this, and the natural cane is a distinctive<br>feature of these bows.</p>
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content: <p>British Patent 903574</p>
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content: <p>Lawrence Cocker (Patent Bows) Ltd.</p>
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content: <p>L. Cocker S.M. Cocker</p>
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content: <p>16 North Parade – Derby – England</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Derby
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Albert F. and Lorette M. Moglie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0472.06
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content: 1987.0472.06
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content: 1987.0472
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cane (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: horsehair (overall material)
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content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 9/16 in; 72.0725 cm x 4.1275 cm x 1.42875 cm