Here’s the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-BOXED-FLUTE-CHAPPELL-CO-LONDON-C1830-/290488038832?pt=UK_Woodwind_Instruments&hash=item43a26fb5b0
Here’s a artistic 
rendition of the Blonde:
Hubba-hubba!
Nice artistic rendition, there. The flute itself looks gorgeous. Stunningly good condition, too.
Interesting that the seller thinks the box is the original case - when it really doesn’t fit the flute. My Rudall came in a similar box, which also didn’t fit well - and probably was not the original case…
Wonder how it will play, though.
Pamela
Looks very nice, but will it play in tune with itself at A=440 with a length of 67cm, as it was made according to the seller back in 1820-1830 when A=430 was usually the norm?
ya know, some of us just play with ourselves sometimes 
is that ivory around the embouchure hole? why would you do that?
harder than wood, less likely to go south on ya with moisture
some of the moderns will just put an insert across the blowing edge
Here is a shakuhachi with a bone insert (utaguchi) that I once owned.
Cool, thanks 
So it doesn’t change the sound though; its just to protect the edge (from wearing away or damage)?
yer into personal beliefs, eh
Everyone who lives in Tucson dreams of being cool.
Bowie, excuse me.
I always thought the reason they put the ivory insert in the embouchure hole, was mainly because the maker screwed up when he cut the embouchure. Most of these design renovations come from screw ups… 
Tee-hee…
Might be me, but the embouchure looks huge. Optical effect or for real?
actually, i live in another small obscure Arizona town now; i just moved to Camp Verde (and i’ve updated my profile to reflect this new, significant information
free flute-playing advice to anyone who can point to Camp Verde on a map (without using Google!
necessity being the mother of invention. 
oy, youse over complicate everything…
necessity is a mother
done
'Sfunny - it looks on the small side of normal to me …
Pardon me, Jon. Honest I’m not trying to be pedantic or anything, but you’ve confused me. Did you mean “design innovations”, ie steps forward in original design of the instrument, or were you in fact talking about situations where the embouchure hole may have been damaged and has been “renovated” by inserting an ivory bush?
In the case of the Peter Noy boxwood flute that Denny pictured on this thread, which is now in the hands of Michael Eskin, the bone insert at the embouchure hole is a deluxe innovation and not merely a renovation, in my humble opinion. I suspect that ivory and bone are used for both embouchure innovation and for renovation, as Jon suggests.
while ivory (or mother of pearl) bushings could be used if a maker “screws” up an embouchure…
it was actually Charles Nicholson who espoused the bushing, prefering the harder edge of ivory than wood, also believing that wood softened over time, losing its edge, and the ivory edge remained sharper longer.
Too, that would certainly be the case with boxwood, which is the softest of the woods used for a flute.
so it actually had little to do with messed up embouchures, though that would be a logical presumption.