The Concertina Museum: 4.1-001



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Item Type: Carving

Summary

Full Description: A hand-painted soft paste ceramic statuette of a frock-coated street musician playing a concertina. There are countless examples around the world of small figurines, carvings, toys and trinkets that use (or more correctly abuse) theconcertina as a feature to add 'cuteness' to such objects. The Collection includes but a few examples: the leading collection of such items is that of Henrik Műller of Sweden, whose amazing collection may be viewed here . [http://web.telia.com/~u41321288/figurines/index.html]

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 4.1-001





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The Concertina Museum Collection

Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams

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