French Violin Bow
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This violin bow was made by and unknown maker in Mirecourt, France, about 1880, and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a round snakewood stick with an ivory face, nickel silver lined ebony frog with underslide, colored pearl slide, and ebony button with two nickel silver rings (one extant), and a pearl eye.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. This instrument listed in an 1880 J. Howard Foote catalog, sold as a violin bow (#6168), for $37.50 per dozen.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Grand Est, Mirecourt
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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 J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055697
label: catalog number
content: 55697
label: accession number
content: 11535
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: snakewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pearl (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horsehair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 74.295 cm x 2.8575 cm x 1.27 cm