Samuel Allen

Highest auction price

£4,780

Auction price history

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