German Violin Bow
date: label: date made
content: 1875-1899
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This bow was made by an unknown maker in Germany, around 1875-1899. It is a violin bow made of a round pernambuco stick, with an ebony frog with a patented slide arrangement for tightening the bow hair. Marked on the frog:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>GOSTIB PATENT ANGEM[ELDET]</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
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.72.16
label: catalog number
content: 72.16
label: accession number
content: 296918
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pernabuco (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 9/16 in; 74.295 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.42875 cm