Violin Bow By John Dodd London C.1820 Classical

John Dodd 1752 - 1839 son of Edward Dodd (1705 - 1810 ), who was also a bow maker.
John Dodd became the greatest English bow maker until Tubbs. He was a gunlock fitter and then a money-scale maker before turning to bow making.
His later bows are particularly fine, though judged to be a little short.
John Dodd was a contemporary of Francois Xavier.Tourte and worked in London.
Dodd used two forms for the head ; the slender "swan" type and the squat " hammer " head type, more common in Italy and France. An excellent choice of Pernambuco wood was available to Dodd and much of this came to England in the form of Barrels. This explains the numerous traces of nail holes which sometimes run right through his sticks.
According to Baillot, it seems that Viotti may have used a Dodd bow which was about 2½ cm shorter than the Tourte model. Many of Dodd's bows have this fault of not being long enough. He arrived at a similar bow design to Tourte, though through entirely independent means.

The octagonal fluted stick of pernambuco of an orange-brown colour, silver mounted ebony frog inlaid with pearl eye, three part silver adjuster inlaid with pearl eye. Silver head plate.