Record price for a violin bow

The bow is said to have once belonged to the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, the founder of the Israel Philharmonic. It is marked with his initials. It was sold by an unnamed violinist.

The Frenchman Tourte, who died in Pars in 1835, is regarded as the "Stradivarius of the bow". He holds a similarly prominent position for the bow as the legendary violin maker does for the violins themselves. He shaped the nature of the violin bow with technical innovations that still puzzle historians today. Tourte must have had very unusual mathematical knowledge and measuring skills for his time.