Concertina

English-system concertina. Flat rosewood ends, 5.75in/146mm across parallel sides; fretwork with pine backing. The end assembly fits over and around an inner shelf of the action end-frame. 32 ivory buttons: 16 each side, broad naturals stamped with note names, narrow black-cored accidentals. Bone pallets. Square-end brass reeds, with pan and reeds stamped with note names. The action has complex brass levers with the buttons held in a forked slot on the end of the levers. Screwed blued steel leaf springs, screwed lever pivots, and bone pallets with note names stamped near the holes in the action board. Five-fold green leather bellows with slightly embossed gold star papers, and having a 0.375in/9.6mm inches deep bellows frame. Later green leather straps and later leather-clad finger rests (previous screw holes indicate that the original finger rest was straight). Original nickel strap-screws. Faint manuscript date inked on the pan leather: 1834. Oval silver plaque label, engraved 'By His Majesty's letters patent, 123, C Wheatstone, Inventor, 20 Conduit St., Regent St., London'. Serial number: 123. With walnut veneered case. Formerly owned by Frank E. Butler, the grandson of concertina maker and ex-Wheatstone employee George Jones, and Charles George Roylance, author of many tutor books for both English and Anglo concertinas