Object Details
- Description
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:
GOSTIB PATENT ANGEM[ELDET]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1875-1899
- Credit Line
- Gift of Janos Scholz
- Physical Description
- pernabuco (overall material)
- ebony (overall material)
- Measurements
- 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
- Object Name
- Bow
