Your English is fine, Mr Paris.
I can tell you privately about the plates, if you really want to know.
One of the keys on the top fingered joint has a low cup, and the others deeper ones.
If the flute had been of the quality of the boxwood Rudall I bought a fortnight ago I might have had it myself, but I can buy Rudalls needing crack repairs cheaper, but how many does a chap need ?
Indeed I might buy more Rudalls were I to find a source of cocus wood, Nobody seems to know or care if a head joint is well enough replaced.
By the end of the week I may be unable to move for Wylde flutes in different states as well. Life can be very trying.
I only have one suitable Rudall style headjoint in reserve and have been waiting for something particularly fine to use it on. It is little use if the barrel is split as well !
And now the flute is offered at 2400 $ (or 1250 £ or 1850 €)
Perhaps the vendor is developing some sort of concience ???
( Or knows something we don’t ? ).
Or maybe he reads this forum and sees what people think about his flute…
Now…
GBP 1,150.00 (Approximately US $2,224.50)
Matt - enough with your update ! it’s giving me a heart attack, I’m doing my best to avoid this auction, I really need to have less not more, and it’s all about me!
always 
Sounds like this joker doesn’t really know what his flute would be worth on the open market. Maybe he should try an auction or something like that.
Just a thought…
Roger
OK, eilam I stop… 
And from the same seller: ebay item # 3766778369. Have you ever seen such a… Thing?
I met the owner today just by chance in a quite different context.
His wife does the selling.
I think he neither knows nor cares !
What is that? It looks unfinished.
Or maybe an early version of Casey Burns’ “folk flute” 
Most of the cracks on this flute are on the long section where the tenon goes in. That can be glued , after a fashion, and sleeved, but how can any strength be given to the joint where it is needed most ?
It is easy to be glib about things when one is not going to spend any of ones own money, but these are real problems with this flute , pretty as it may be.!
( It may be the pretty ones who bring a chap down furthest and fastest ! ).
Not me, of course !! I’m past such worldly thongs ! I mean things.
Ok it’s sold. Eilam will feel much better now. (Or is it you who bought it?)
Olwell strikes again !
I hope he likes it !
The same seller now has a Fentum (# 3768486794)
This one is in a very, very bad shape. Two missing rings, one missing key, short F block broken, headjoint and barrel cracked, missing part of the slide, etc. The price is… Funny.
Maybe we should wait a bit that it becomes reasonable. With another headjoint, it may be good?
Last time I saw a Fentum, it was Sylvain Barou’s one. Good flute, I think.
Stamped Fentum. Mr Paris. Not made by !
I have seen no evidence that H Fentum, flautist & retailer ever did more than stamp the flutes he sold.
The keys are brass, and the whole thing is a sad poor wreck, possibly usable for bits.I know 'cos I looked at it before the vendor acquired it.
How could it be made good ?, and at what cost ?