Posted yesterday and update this morning:
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/fs-uk-only-rudall-carte-boehm-flute-modern-pitch-a-440/85132/1
Info from Robert Bigio via the person who sold it to me:
Serial #5956: Completed 18 July 1919. Cocus Boehm, German silver keys, flat pitch [meaning modern pitch]. Made by Kurzen. Sold 2 August 1919 to P. Haddington of Doncaster.
‘Kurzen’ was Augustus Kurzendorfer, known as Gus. He was the London-born son of a clarinet maker from Markneukirchen. Albert Cooper remembered him.
Not a pristine collector’s flute by any means. Well used, multiple old cracks and repairs,including an open-to-closed G# conversion, now fully restored by a master. My expectation in buying it and having it restored was to have a very solid player at a fraction of what a modern wood Boehm of comparable quality would cost. That idea still holds, except that a truly pristine modern-pitch cocus and silver Radcliff came my way and ate up my entire flute-buying budget for 2012 and 2013, so good old RC5956 is looking for a home. Everything I’ve learned and experienced about these flutes indicates the love being played and hate being neglected. I’m offering it to UK buyers while it’s still on the other side. If there are no takers there, I’ll repost it for North American buyers after I receive it from Mr. Haswell. US price would be US$1850.