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Round pernambuco stick with octagonal handle, whalebone wrapping, neck grafted, head replaced, French tip with trapezoidal mortise, silver headplate, ebony liner, ebony frog with prismatic guide, silver underslide, silver ferrule, mother-of-pearl slide and eye (with small silver ring), silver heelplate, octagonal ebony button (maybe not original) with two silver rings and mother-of-pearl eye.
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Title: Violin Bow
Maker:
Bausch workshop
Date: late 19th century
Geography: Leipzig, Germany
Culture: German
Medium: Pernambuco, whalebone, silver, ebony, mother-of-pearl, horsehair
Dimensions:
Length of stick: 72.8 cm (29 in)
Length of hair: 65.0 cm (25-5/16 in.)
Weight: 58.7 gm
Classification: Chordophone-Accessories-bow
Credit Line: Bequest of Annie Bolton Matthews Bryant, 1933
Object Number: 34.86.2c
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