Here is tremendous early bow in Ironwood from the Pajeot workshop complete with its original bone button. Here is a quote from the Millant book on this type of bow:

All his bows are of fine or very fine quality, as he was a perfectionist who kept an alert eye on production in his workshop.

Weight. 56g. with tinsel lapping, solid silver would take the bow to 58/59g.

Although the certificate says circa 1830, looking through the reference books two things strike me. The first is that it feels closer to 1820-1825, the second is that to say workshop is a very safe attribution, the head is identical to Etienne Pajeot’s very early work. Complete with its original trench frog, it is a rare and wonderful survivor from the dawn of the modern bow.

In this head you can still see the influence of the Tourte brothers, at this time all the rage in Paris. Indeed at this time Pajeot was in his late twenties or early thirties, around this time the Parisienne dealer Charles-Francois Gand (the most influential dealer in Paris before the assent of J. B. Vuillaume) approached Pajeot to maker close replica Tourte bows for him! Indeed, his request was in a letter written 27th April 1836. So Gand in Paris was aware who, of all the Mirecourt makers he should approach for a fine bow.

Note the superb slim line elegant head and the very typically slim but beautifully formed chamfers.indeed, elegant is the byword for this great makers output. Original trench, again for me this suggests nearer to 1820-1825 as by the thirties he is increasingly making frogs with a ferrule and a bottom plate, no bottom plate here.

As you can see, a bow with a big character, a joy for early and classical players. A first class, thoroughly original, undamaged Pajeot workshop bow with a certificate in Ironwood. This bow can be viewed at our Enfield workshop.