Kit

'Narrow model, with the body of tortoise-shell bent round and shaped to five faces, and a silver cap at the end riveted in place. Belly with heart-shaped sound hole and two inward-facing C-holes. The peg box has a finial, now partly missing, in the form of a man with a moustache and inlaid mother-of-pearl eyes. Four ivory pegs.' Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), p. 22.