This French violin bow imparts excellent materials and playing properties. Pernambuco stick, fully lined ebony frog with a petite thumb projection and large pearl eyes to the faces. Silver lapping and lizard leather thumb grip bring the final balanced weight to 60.5 grams. “BAZIN” in large lettering is common to bows by the patriarch of the Bazin family, Francois Xavier Bazin, who died young in 1865. His bows generally take more after Pajeot and Peccatte in style, which are marked departures from the profile and chamfering to the head of this particular bow. The Vuillaume system too is misplaced and wouldn’t continue through the end of the stick on bows by the Bazin family, nor is the chevaling of the frog, or the thumb projection consistent either. It is most certainly French and from Mirecourt, anonymous, but playing at Bazin family. However, I am happy to report that it plays tremendously well and delivers nuanced transitions between articulations.