A guy walked intot he shop with an all steel bow. Made in England, cork handle, shot either side, green paint, original decals and box. Thin at the tips. 55# or so. He was desperate and wanted to sell it. We have lots of old bow, osage, glass and the works, but I had not seen one. What is it worth-condition about 96%? Colectable? The shop owner told the guy he had no way of knowing the value and said he would not low ball him as it had to be worth something in its condition.

It.had the second name of "Pollock" on it. Really nice. Antone with info on it and perhaps a value? Jawge, Dire Wolf?

Could be an Apollo bow like Ann Weber is shooting in the ad. They were made in England. Tubular steel with cork wrapped handle.

Yep....you can read on the bottom the mfgs were Accles and Pollock.

That is the company! That is not the model. I will look at the bow again next weekend. How common is this bow? Any way to value it for him?

I googled it up. He has a condor and it is best used as a wall hangar. Thanks George, I will direct him to the site for his info

I don't know that the tubular stainless steel is dangerous to shoot. The old aluminum limbs would develop fatigue, but the s.s. may be fine to shoot. Also, I'm not aware of how long Apollo made bows...my photo is from 1952. Seefab also made a similar model as can be seen in the same ad.

Thie Apollo bow was a comercial design based on the military accles and pollock bows made during WWII. These came in a metal tube and contained a bow 40lb @ 28" and 12 tubular aluminium arrows with bodkin points. The Apollo was a fine bow in its day with the 40lb model being accurate at 100 yds with no problem. There was an unfortunate tendancy for them to snap due to metal fatigue. That explains why most of those available today are low power and short draw length models. The arrival of solid glass and composite bows ended their short reign. Today it is suicidal to shoot one of these as it can cut your head open or spear you in the cod peice. My apollo was lost in a fire at my old club two years ago!

Nice wall hangers.They are a bit of target archery history and there for should make a good conversation piece in ones collection .I think there were some steel tube bows made by a Scandinavian company around the same period as well.These types of bows were popular in many countries.The US the UK. Sweden and Australia.As pointed out earlier they get metal fatigue and cause quite severe injuries.Please don't string them let alone try to shoot one. OSR

Nobody wants to get speared in the cod peice!

I believe at one time Martin archery stocked the all steel Apollo.I was also thinking sometime in the 1920's or 1930's ish an archer from Sweden won the Olympics with an all steel Seefab ?????? bd

I think Dire Wolf still shoots his Seefab bow.

I think it's a good opportunity to point out that these are self bows. According to the earliest uses of the term, it meant a bow whose limbs were of one material throughout.

We find people trying to limit it to wood bows now.

X2 on the codpiece spearing thing !

Cool! Accles and Pollock also made Apollo golf shafts. I believe they got their start manufacturing Airplane parts, but am not 100% on that.

I've not encountered the Apollo steel bow.. I do own and still shoot a Swede made drawn tubular steel SEEFAB.. It's a Takedown, has sights and only about 42#@30" draw..a target bow with reflexed tips and tinny string nocks..:)

Hans Deutgen of Sweden won an Olympic archery eday with one back in the 30's?..I'd have to check my Robert Elmer old book:"Target Archery" that shows a pic of Hans ..

I have seen a couple of the old USA made True Temper steel bows..BUT they didn't know how to draw and taper tubular steel like the Swedes did on the SEEFABS Jim

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