Lot 311: CHARLES WHEATSTONE (B GLOUCESTER 1802, D PARIS 1875) A THIRTY-EIGHT BUTTON ENGLISH CONCERTINA

CHARLES WHEATSTONE (B GLOUCESTER 1802, D PARIS 1875) A THIRTY-EIGHT BUTTON ENGLISH CONCERTINA LONDON, 1836

ARTIST'S NATIONALITY
British

fretted hexagonal pine-backed amboyna end-plates, bone buttons, the Cs stained red, the accidentals stained black, four-fold black leather bellows with decorative papers

inscribed on an applied metal label by His Majesty's Letters Patent, 147, C. Wheatstone, 20, Conduit St., Regent St., London

diameter 5 13/16in., 14.7cm.

Sold with a letter from C. Wheatstone & Co., London, dated 13th August 1908 confirming the date of manufacture and that this instrument was sold to Cramer & Co., in August 1837

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