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Item Type: Concertina
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Straps and Holding Devices
Straps Summary: Light brown leather profiled hand-strap mounted on tall transverse hand-bars, and secured by an adjustable nickel clasp to one end, and clamped at the other to the hand bar with a rectangular mother o' Pearl plate with two screws: possibly a contemporsary replacement, since large Duets of the period would have Gilt-embossed and Wheatstone-named straps.
Thumb-straps Summary: None
Hand-straps Summary: Light brown leather profiled hand-strap mounted on tall transverse hand-bars, and secured by an adjustable nickel clasp to one end, and clamped at the other to the hand bar with a rectangular mother o' Pearl plate with two screws: possibly a contemporsary replacement, since large Duets of the period would have Gilt-embossed and Wheatstone-named straps.
Hand-straps Material: Light brown leather
Hand-straps Decoration: Embossed borders around perimeter.
Hand-straps Holes or Slot: Holes
Hand-straps Contemporary: Contemporary
Hand-straps Screws & Fittings: Two leather straps each secured by an adjustable nickel clasp to one end, and clamped at the other to the hand bar with a rectangular mother o' Pearl plate with two screws
