Check this out it isn’t mine but it looks nice. Now, if you look closely at the maker’s stamp that sure does look like a faded Rudall & Rose logo. Looks to be in good repair as well. I thought I would pass it on here as it has no reserve and someone might get a good deal. I might even try for it myself, but I am sure that within a couple of days it will be more than I have.
Looking through what I’ve got here…the rings match the Pfaff (which is American…forget that )…the keywork closely matchs both D’Almaine’s…maby the same maker ???
Hi,
Looks like a Prowse to me. You could fall into that embouchure hole, it’s huge! Designed no doubt, after the late great Mr. Nickolson. Nice big tone holes, but don’t get it near Terry’s tuning menace program! These flutes have very creative tuning… I have a Phaff, but it doesn’t have those rings.
Lovely flute!
looks kind of like a Wallis insignia, so maybe he is the maker? maybe the maker died before he could stamp his name? I have seen that stamp somewhere, I will have to look at my vast collection… 
The layout smacks of Nickolson’s to me, don’t it Jack? ( jack has a lovely Nickolson’s.)
“Creative tuning”
LOL!
Makes one wonder how these flutes were ever played.
Its a good thing we have modern science to tell us how horrible they are.
(Aanvil leaps under the desk)
Nickolson had a strong upper lip!
Interesting one, eh? I don’t think I’ve seen those rings before, except maybe in ivory on some military flutes, and then they were more pronounced. The Crown is a bit cheeky, as it seems to imply a royal patent (Rudall Carte employed the crown but Carte had the patent to back it up). I have an anonymous Bb military flute marked “Improved London” with the crown, so there were plenty of cheeky people out there.
I imagine that this was one of those flutes “made for the trade”. Perhaps not the top eschalon of makers (or it would bear their names), but on the face of what we see before us, good clean work. Indeed, I’d suggest better than average work.
A very interesting feature is the top ring on the barrel. Find the image with the barrel separated out and you’ll see it’s smaller than normal. Now find an image with the head and barrel together and that small ring has disappeared. It slips under the lower head ring - a feature I don’t remember seeing elsewhere and which might one day help us identify this flute.
There are so many beautiful flutes out there.
Terry