Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 13

John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914

33 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
3JOHN ASKEW
4Violin-Maker – – – Frontispiece
6GREY BULL INN
7Where Askew was born – – – 3
9STANHOPE SAXHORN BAND
10Members, Crystal Palace, 1860 – – – 9
12JOHN ASKEW
13Fishing in the River Wear – – – 10
15BRONZE MEDAL.
16Awarded—Inventions Exhibition, London, 1885 – 48
18DIPLOMA
19Awarded with Bronze Medal, 1885 – – – 50
21MISS G. I. HILDYARD
22and Medal Violin – – – – 62
24THE "HILDYARD" ASKEW VIOLIN
25Awarded Bronze Medal, London, 1885
26"First Prize," Exhibition, Newcastle, 1887 64-65
28THE "VAN GELDEREN" ASKEW VIOLIN
29Awarded Bronze Medal, London, 1885
30"First Prize," Exhibition, Newcastle, 1887 72-73
32THE "PHOENIX" ASKEW VIOLIN 81-82

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