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Nicolas (SIMON FR) SIMON

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£26,400

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin Bow	Silver mounted, round stick, mother-of-pearl frog, button with two silver bands and pearl facets	March 2025	£26,400
Violin Bow	Nickel mounted, unhaired and unlapping, stick and head blemishes, handle wear, frog crack	June 2024	£1,642
Violin Bow	Silver mounted, round stick branded SIMON FR, ebony frog, unhaired and unlapping	May 2024	£14,296
Violin Bow	Nickel mounted, round stick unstamped	May 2024	£4,005
Cello Bow	Nickel mounted, round stick, ebony frog with pearl eye, nickel and ebony button	March 2024	£18,000
Violin Bow	S/E 60.5 g. without winding	December 2011	£6,869
Violin Bow	S/E 58.0 g.	November 2011	£6,390
Violin Bow	N/E 62.5 g. [frog made by "Francois Peccatte"]	June 2011	£3,900
Violin Bow	N/E 53.5 g. without hair or winding (frog & button later)	June 2011	£2,204
Viola Bow	N/E 69 g. Mirecourt, 1860 c.	March 2011	£4,375
Violin Bow	N/E 45 g. without hair or winding	December 2010	£1,657
Violin Bow	S/E 54.5 g. without winding (heel missing)	June 2010	£4,660
Violin Bow	S/E 57 g. with silk winding	June 2010	£8,803
Violin Bow	S/T 60.5 g. Mirecourt, 1850 c.	March 2010	£6,250
Violin Bow	S/E 54.5 g. without winding, branded "Simon Fr."	December 2009	£10,881
Violin Bow	S/E 57.5 g.	December 2009	£12,513
Violin Bow	N/E 52.5 g. Exotic wood, without hair or winding	December 2009	£1,306
Violin Bow	S/T 60.5 g. Mirecourt, 1850 c.	October 2009	£5,250
Violin Bow	S/E 53 g. Mirecourt, 1850 c. (frog & button)	October 2009	£2,375
Violin Bow	N/E 53.5 g. no hair, with silk winding [Workshop of]	June 2009	£2,904
Violin Bow	N/E 49 g. without hair or winding	June 2009	£3,630
Violin Bow	N/E 56 g. Amourette wood without hair nor winding [Workshop]	December 2008	£1,536
Violin Bow	N/E 59.5 g.	December 2008	£3,583
Violin Bow	N/E 56 g. Amourette wood	December 2008	£717
Violin Bow	S/E 60.0 g.	October 2008	£1,663
Violin Bow	S/E 51g without lapping (frog & button by "C.N. Bazin)	June 2008	£9,284
Violin Bow	N/E 48 g. without hair or lapping (frog & button not original)	June 2008	£2,228
Cello Bow	S/E 59 g. without hair or winding, branded "Gand Ã Laval"	December 2007	£2,383
Violin Bow	S/I 56 g. (crack to side of head)	December 2007	£2,127
Cello Bow	S/E 76.5 g. [Probably by]	May 2007	£1,213
Violin Bow	S/E 56.0 g.	March 2007	£6,900
Viola Bow	S/E 65 g. 1960 c. [Probably by]	November 2006	£2,470
Cello Bow	S/E 76 g. [Probably by]	October 2006	£3,316
Violin Bow	S/E 61 g. Paris, mid-19th C.	July 2006	£6,000
Violin Bow	S/E 59 g. Mirecourt, 1850 c.	July 2006	£1,800
Violin Bow	N/E 57.5 g. without winding (crack after winding)	June 2006	£4,856
Violin Bow	N/E 61 g. 1860 c.	May 2006	£1,328
Violin Bow	N/E 55 g. without hair, branded "Stentor"	December 2005	£3,273
Violin Bow	S/E 62 g.	November 2005	£5,760
Violin Bow	S/E 57 g.	October 2004	£1,062
Violin Bow	N/E 56 g. without hair [Bazin Workshop]	October 2004	£664
Violin Bow	N/E 55.5 g. without wrapping, Ironwood	June 2004	£393
Violin Bow	S/E 60 g.	November 2003	£2,451
Violin Bow	N/E 57 g.	June 2003	£3,000
Cello Bow	S/E 77 g.	June 2001	£3,360
Cello Bow	N/T 58 g.	June 2000	£3,372
Violin Bow	N/E 60 g.	June 2000	£870
Violin Bow	N/E 61 g.	June 1999	£2,623
Violin Bow	S/E 61 g.	June 1997	£1,150
Violin Bow	S/E 55 g.	November 1994	£632
Violin Bow	S/E 61 g.	June 1994	£8,580
Violin Bow	S/E 61 g.	April 1993	£1,840
Violin Bow	S/E 60 g.	November 1992	£6,600
Violin Bow	S/E 57 g.	June 1991	£4,620
Violin	1788	April 1984	£1,626

Biographies

John Dilworth

SIMON, Nicolas (SIMON FR) Born 1806, died 1864 Mirecourt France. Fine Mirecourt bow maker. Pecatte school, with strong heads, sticks of rounded triangular section, and frogs with open throat. Established under his own name from c.1840. Millant suggests that the letters ‘FR’ in his brand refer to his wife, M. Frébinet. Bows continued to appear under this name for ten years after Simon’s death, presumably due to his wife’s previous close involvement with the business, which enabled her to maintain the shop up until her own death in 1874. Branded: SIMON. FR [Millant/Raffin]