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Serpent
Serpent, of leather-covered wood, with brass struts, brass crook socket and crook, brass bell garland, 7 brass keys, ivory mouthpiece, fingerholes ivory bushed.
- Date:
pre 1815 - Maker:
Thomas Key - Collection:
Bate Collection, Oxford - Inventory number:
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UK, England, London
- Culture:
- Period:
- Materials:Wood;Plant;Leather;Skin;Animal;Brass;Metal;Ivory;Tooth
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- Inscriptions:KEY 20 CHARING CROSS LONDON [on crook socket] RICHARD BENTINCK DRUMMER 23rd REGIMENT OF FOOT R.W.F. WELLINGTON-WATERLOO JUNE 18th 1815 [on bell mount]
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:
- Repository:Bate Collection, Oxford
- Measurements:Max L = 730 mm Max W = 430 mm