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Serpent. Wooden body with black leather covering. Brass crook, ferrules, stays and keys. Twelve keys, saddle mounted, with circular flat flaps and leather pads. Two keys missing. Stays supporting each of the four bends. Undecorated ferrules at crook receiver and bell. Crook has string-lapped tenon.
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1825-1875 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
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- Materials:string, paint, leather, copper alloy, wood
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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: 780 x 460 x 100 mm