The Concertina Museum Collection Ref:C-163.



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Item Type: Concertina

Summary Labels and Serial Numbers End Frets Fingering System Straps and Holding Devices Fret Baffle Action Board Reeds and Reed Pans Bellows Case and Other

Summary

Full Description: A Joseph Scates 48-Key English system concertina, Serial Number 294. This lavishly-made model has hand-cut two-ply Amboyna-veneered frets, amboyna-veneered case and green glossy leather bellows. It boasts the rare "Joseph Scates, 26 College Green, Dublin" address label, (found under an applied Lachenal & Co label), and is an early model. Flat-topped bushed brass keys, square-ended nickel-tongued reeds, 5-fold green high gloss leather bellows with an early version of "Stars & Dots" papers. The original sub-fret pine baffles have been replaced with shabby leather baffles, all pirced all over with small circualr holes to enhance aidr access; The pine baffles, however, have been crudely fixed within the bellows-frames, with strips of chamois leather, possibly to over the reed chambers?? Scates did trade in Liverpool for a time, and their is an oval dealer's label of R J Ward & Sons, St Anne Street, Liverpool applied to a lower bellows paper.

Concertina Summary: A Joseph Scates 48-Key English system concertina, Serial Number 294. This lavishly-made model has hand-cut two-ply Amboyna-veneered frets, amboyna-veneered case and green glossy leather bellows. It boasts the rare "Joseph Scates, 26 College Green, Dublin" address label, (found under an applied Lachenal & Co label), and is an early model. Flat-topped bushed brass keys, square-ended nickel-tongued reeds, 5-fold green high gloss leather bellows with early "Stars & Dots" papers.

Owner or Collection: Concertina Museum, Belper

Maker: Joseph Scates

Maker Links: Joseph Scates information at Chris Flint's web-site: http://www.scatesconcertinas.com/ (Chris Flint mentions that Scates's early instruments were also supplied to J Alvey Turner). Futher info at the Wes Williams Archive: www.concertinas.org.uk/others.htm#Scates

Region of Manufacture: London

Main Maker's Label Wording: "Joseph Scates Manufacturer, 26, College Green, Dublin"

Principal Serial Number: 294.

System Type: Standard 48-Key Treble English system.

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum Collection Ref:C-163.






Maker Details

Joseph Scates, a former tuner with Wheatstone, was active in London approximately 1844 to 1850, and in Dublin from 1850 to

Joseph Scates set up sometime around 1844 at 40 Frith Street, Soho, London, the house of his father Joseph, who in 1839 ran a 'Stationer and Porteusian Bible Warehouse'. He moved to 32 New Bond St. from 1847-49, but quickly sold out to George Case and by 1851 had set up at Westmoreland Street in Dublin.


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