English Violin Bow
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow was made by an unknown maker in England, about 1750. It is a violin bow made of a round (oval) medium dark-brown beefwood stick, with an open-face ivory frog and bone button.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This is an interesting transitional bow with oval graduations and a modified pike head. The mortices for the hair in the head and the eyelet on the shank are both unusually wide. The frog and button, while contemporary, are not original to the stick.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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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 Janos Scholz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.72.15
label: catalog number
content: 72.15
label: accession number
content: 296918
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: beefwood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horsehair (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 27 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 70.8025 cm x 3.175 cm