Item Type: Patent - Scates

Summary

Full Description: A scan of an extract from “The Repertory of Patent Inventions, 1846” from the London Journal of Arts, Sciences and Manufactures, listing as No 21 Joseph Scates’ Irish Patent for “an improved lever action, with cylindrical fulcrum, for the concertina, accordion, harmonicon, melephon and seraphine.”
This is from the Chris Flint Collection, whose valuable research and genealogy of the Scates family and many other minor concertina makers of the 1840s to 1880s is at: http://www.scatesconcertinas.com/

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 2.1.4-001