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Item Type: Concertina
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Summary
Full Description: 48-Key, rosewood-ended George Case concertina, No 68 (pans and bellows are from Geo Case No 245). Label missing, ivory keys, square ended reeds, late Geo Case green leather bellows, just the Bookbinders' style crimp to bellows-frame leather, and with "gold-cross, dots and hexagon-tracery" papers but NO silk bottom-bout. A first appearance on an early George Case of round-ended brass reeds (in a pan numbered 245). Case absent.
Concertina Summary: 48-Key, rosewood-ended George Case concertina, No 68 (pans and bellows are from Geo Case No 245). Label missing, ivory keys, square ended reeds, green leather bellows.
Owner or Collection: Concertina Museum, Belper
Maker: George Case
Maker Links: George Case:Good source of information at Chris Flint's web-site: www.scatesconcertinas.com/casenotes.html An 1860 price list is at: www.concertina.com/pricelists/case/Case-MDRA-1860.pdf and Case's address data is at: www.concertinas.org.uk/others.htm#Case. Booseys' address data at: www.concertinas.org.uk/others.htm#Boosey Keith, Prowse information at: www.concertinas.org.uk/others.htm#KeithProwse Information on Sedgwick at: www.concertinas.org.uk/others.htm#Sedgwick
Region of Manufacture: London
Main Maker's Label Wording: The scalloped label (probably of the "...late Joseph Scates" format, is missing.
Principal Serial Number: 68 (pans and bellows are from Geo Case No 245)
System Type: 48-Key Treble English system
Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum Collection Ref:C-179.
