bow, violin

bow, violin, pernambuco, round, slightly concave stick with octagonal end, blue/grey coiled leather lapping, silver button with gun metal screw shaft, mother of pearl eye, moveable ebony frog with silver lining, mother of pearl eyes and slide. Silver ferrule connects white horse hair, silver tip and end, hatchet head.

1 violin bow

Albert Leeson for William E Hill & Sons, London, England, early 20th century

pernambuco, silver, ebony, mother-of-pearl, leather length 752 mm, weight 62.2 g

stamped ‘H&S’ above frog, ‘B’ near mortice, ‘3’ on tip

1998.60.395

Albert Leeson (d 1946) joined Hills after 1917.