A fine French silver mounted cello bow by Dominique "Justin" Poirson.
Beautiful professional silver mounted cello bow made by Dominique Justin Poirson - made ca 1885-1900.
Poirson's cello bows are quite hard to find.
Dominique "Justin" Poirson was trained in Paris with the famous Nicolas Maire from 1865, then he worked for J.B. Vuillaume.
After Vuillaume's death in 1875 he joined the Gand & Bernadel firm, then established himself independently in 1879.
This is one of his very fine and famous Voirin styled cello bows wich are searched for by players and collectors
The beautiful stick is made of the finest brownisch/red pernambuco wood - original stamped 'Poirson a Paris".
The stick has a fine curve, is strong but flexible with a good balance.
This bow plays easy and produces a big full cello sound - easy fast staccato playing.
The length of the stick is around 68,9 cm (4/4 size) and the weight of the bow is ca 79gr.
It comes with new silver winding and leather grip, ready to play !
All parts original  : silver mounted frog with pearl eyes, silver button later.

A very fine cello bow !