What is this: unlabeled old violin bow that does not have screw

[Jere Wendelin]

I heard that the hair is tightened with some tool and it does not miss a screw. Do they make this kind of bows anymore or in what time were bows like this made? Would love to know also if this bow can possibly be rare and good. Put some photos of the violin which the seller thinks is as old as the bow:

Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebad Anno 17.
Made in Czechoslovakia

[Brad Dorsey]

9 hours ago, Jere Wendelin said:

...Would love to know...if this bow can possibly be rare and good...

This bow cannot possibly be rare and/or good.

[Blank face]

There's not much to tell by these photos, except that the frog looks like cheap cottage industry work.

[nathan slobodkin]

Are you sure that it isn’t just a regular screw missing it’s button and screwed too far into the stick? 

[FiddleDoug]

2 hours ago, nathan slobodkin said:

Are you sure that it isn’t just a regular screw missing it’s button and screwed too far into the stick? 

That would be my guess also. And the violin is also not that old, and not good.

[Blank face]

Of course there is just the button lost. There weren’t bows tightened with an extra tool ever, that is some odd fairy tale. And there’s also a worse warping downwards in front of the frog, indicating either a damage or some very cheap kind of wood.

[Jere Wendelin]

21 hours ago, Blank face said:

Of course there is just the button lost. There weren’t bows tightened with an extra tool ever, that is some odd fairy tale. And there’s also a worse warping downwards in front of the frog, indicating either a damage or some very cheap kind of wood.

I further questioned the seller and she said that there is some removable button in the screw. Removed so you would not accidentally turn it while playing. But I don't know the seller and I'm not interested of this bow anymore. Thanks.

[Blank face]

6 hours ago, Jere Wendelin said:

Removed so you would not accidentally turn it while playing. 

Another funny explanation for a loose adjuster button.

[FiddleDoug]

7 hours ago, Jere Wendelin said:

I further questioned the seller and she said that there is some removable button in the screw. Removed so you would not accidentally turn it while playing.

And if believe that, I have some dehydrated water that I could sell you at a very good price.

[baroquecello]

6 hours ago, FiddleDoug said:

And if believe that, I have some dehydrated water that I could sell you at a very good price.

Oh, so that you don't accidently drink it when doing the dishes, right?

[FiddleDoug]

5 hours ago, baroquecello said:

Oh, so that you don't accidently drink it when doing the dishes, right?

I wouldn't use it for dishes, except in an emergency. It come in 12 oz. pop top cans, for drinking. The instructions say "To use, open can and add 12 oz of potable water."