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Serpent. Wood body covered with fabric and outer covering of black leather. Brass crook, brass stays between two upper bends. Three brass keys. Ivory bushed finger holes. Crenulated brass bell ferrule. Brass ferrule at crook socket.
- Date:
1800-1825 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Western Europe - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
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- Materials:wood; textile; paint; ivory; copper alloy
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements: overall: 750 x 460 x 110 mm