Samuel Allen

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£4,780

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin Bow	S/E 62 g.	June 2010	£3,360
Viola Bow	S/E 73 g.	December 2009	£4,200
Violin Bow	S/E 64 g.	March 2009	£828
Violin Bow	S/E 58.5 g. London, 1900 c.	March 2009	£2,500
Cello Bow	86 g. [Attributed to]	July 2004	£1,434
Cello Bow	S/E 81 g.	November 2002	£4,780
Violin Bow	S/E 61 g.	November 2000	£3,220
Cello Bow	S/E 93 g.	March 1988	£1,650
Viola Bow	S/E 69 g.	June 1985	£1,535
Violin Bow	S/E 59 g.	November 1982	£550
Violin Bow	S/E 63 g.	September 1982	£1,430
Viola Bow	S/E 71 g.	April 1982	£1,430
Cello Bow	S/E 92 g.	April 1982	£1,188
Viola Bow	S/E 71 g.	November 1981	£1,375

Biographies

John Dilworth

ALLEN, Samuel Born 1838 Mevagissey, Cornwall, died 1914 London UK. Important and influential English bow maker. An operatic singer and cabinet maker, he is thought to have taught himself the rudiments of bow making before being recruited by the Hills for the workshop in Hanwell, west London, in the 1880s. Early work is strongly influenced by James Dodd (II). Possibly the only bow maker at Hills to make all the bow parts himself; subsequently the various processes were separated out within the workshops. His pupil there was Sydney Yeoman. Left in 1891 and established his own business in St John’s Wood, London, moving to Bolsover Street in 1897. At this shop he also made some violins and a double bass.