Item Type: Concertina
SummaryFull Description: A Joseph Scates 48-Key Baritone English system, Serial Number 170, hand-cut solid rosewood frets of flat profile, rosewood veneer over mahogany side frames. The RH frets have an area of well-replaced rosewood fretting, with a copy of the LH label cartouche, rather that the oval maker-label cartouche. An early model, without a Scates's label; the instrument may have been supplied by Scates to Jabez Austin, whose "JA" stamp appears within the action on the outer action board plinth. Conventional ivory keys. Square-ended brass reeds, 6-fold green leather bellows with plain "Gilt crosses and Dots" papers and without the early silk reinforced bottom bellows-bout. Concertina Summary: A Joseph Scates 48-Key Baritone English system, Serial Number 170, hand-cut solid rosewood frets of flat profile. An early model, without a Scates's label; the instrument may have been supplied by Scates to Jabez Austin. Conventional ivory keys. Square-ended brass reeds, 6-fold green leather bellows with plain "Gilt crosses and Dots" papers and without the early silk reinforced bottom bellows-bout. Owner or Collection: Concertina Museum, Belper Maker: Joseph Scates. Maker Links: Joseph Scates information at Chris Flint's web-site: http://www.scatesconcertinas.com/ (Chris Flint mentions that Scates's early instruments were also supplied to J Alvey Turner). Futher info at the Wes Williams Archive: www.concertinas.org.uk/others.htm#Scates Region of Manufacture: London. Main Maker's Label Wording: None. Principal Serial Number: 170. System Type: Standard 48-Key Baritone English system. Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum Collection Ref:C-162. |
Maker DetailsJoseph Scates, a former tuner with Wheatstone, was active in London approximately 1844 to 1850, and in Dublin from 1850 to Joseph Scates set up sometime around 1844 at 40 Frith Street, Soho, London, the house of his father Joseph, who in 1839 ran a 'Stationer and Porteusian Bible Warehouse'. He moved to 32 New Bond St. from 1847-49, but quickly sold out to George Case and by 1851 had set up at Westmoreland Street in Dublin. |
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Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams
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