Item Type: Wheatstone Concertina CatalogueSummaryFull Description: From the Ruth Askew Collection. An original Wheatstone 'Blue Boards' Concertina catalogue from the 1950s. Written and designed by Harry Minting, this elegant 28-page brochure profiles the history of the firm and its instruments, their manufacture, the wide range of models and fingering systems on offer, and profiles of leading players of the day.This copy has an extra page added after page 27, being the export trade price list for all Wheatstone concertinas, dated December 1951. Other original versions of this publication are Items NC.2.1.1-001 , NC.2.1.1-002 (This being Harry Minting's working copy). A full suite of all 27 pages of the standard "Blue Board" catalogue isavailable as a PDF file here: NC 2.1.1-001.pdf Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 2.1.1-009 |
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