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Item Type: Concertina
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End Frets
Summary: Rectangular rosewood ends, with side-frames down to bellows-frame, in the manner and profile of the earliest German concertinas. Large holes for the leys, and a small lenticular-shaped area or simple fretwork below thw hand-bar, with an area of sub-fret chamois baffle behind it.
End Shape: Rectangular
End Sides: Four
End Diameter: 114 wide x 150mm tall
End-Profile: Flat solid rosewood ends, glued atop rosewood-veneered softwood end-frames.
End Material: Simple machine-cut fret area.
End Bolts: Four Dome-topped woodscres per side, (two absent from RH.).
End Stamps / Labels: The label "By her Majesty's Letters Patent, C Wheatstone & Co, Inventors, 20 Conduit Street, London" is stamped into the varnish on the RH fretwork.
Strap Screw-insert type: Into end-frame woodwork.
Fret Condition: Fine
Damage Summary: Top case strap missing.
