stemmler bow?

[Matt E]

I have found a stemmler bow. It is of Osage with what appears to be a Hickory backng. It is 68" long with nice horn tips.The handle has brown embossed leather . The bow is in real good shape,not much sign of use. I have no idea what I should offer the person for it.Need information on this bow. Thanks in advance.

[mullet]

Matte are you sure the bow is osage and not Cuban Lemon wood?They both look the same when old.I have some Stemmler's that are old ,from the 30's made of lemonwood.They are very dark like osage.I also have a Stemmler longbow made of yew,they used different woods,it's hard to tell which ones with patina on them.Some of those horn tip looking bows are actually Bakelite plastic. Eddie

[Matt E]

Eddie, The wood looks like my own Osage bows that have aged. I have never had the chance to study Yew or Lemon wood close. It is a hard wood so I ruled out Yew. I really don't know. The horn is real horn. This bow and a childs "York" bow are in the lot. I need to make an offer and don't have an idea what value to put on the bow. This bow is in the best shape of all I have ran across.It does have about two inches of string follow.

[mullet]

Matte, the string follow has nothing to do with the bow unless you are going to shoot it.And then it means nothing.If I was going to offer a price on those bows I would do it like they were non-shootable wall hangers.Which might be the case.I would give a modest,low price and tell them they would probally break if shot.Which could happen,due to drieness of the wood from age.It's happened to me.If those bows are osage that old they should be almost black.Lemonwood will look like osage ,dark orange.Yew will look darkgolden orange.If it's lemonwood and you are going to shoot it you will need to get some moisture or oil back into the wood.If you want to shoot itI wouldn't pay alot.Eddie

[JeDuffey]

Just out of curiosity, what happened with this purchase?

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

I watched a horn nocked Stemmler with leather grip sell on the Internet about 6 weeks ago. It went for about $100. I have one with a Corded grip and would not sell it for twice that.

[Matt E]

The bows in question were two that I was asked to make strings for.He decided to keep them. I will keep trying to purchase both bows.I think they may have thought they were worth more than I was willing to pay.