With Sam Murray head. Looks like a fun fixer upper!
I wonder what “Fleur de Lis, Rudall & Rose London” means?
A bit expensive for a fixer upper?
Yours as is (two cracked headjoints, the original cracked
through the embouchure) for 4500 dollars.
Well it is a auction, so I guess it might go for whatever people are willing to pay for it, probably go for $3,500, unless there is a bidding war. The $4,500 is just for the impatient buyer! A little rich for my taste. I don’t know what a Murray head goes for. I think it sad that the Murray barrel was cracked, not the head. The original seem to be cracked through the back of the Patent head, not the embouchure.
Come on Jim, I know you want it… 
Head joint has several cracks: one crack in back which was poorly repaired. It runs the length of the head joint including the barrel. Another crack runs through the embochure.
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I get the idea there are two headjoints in this story.
Hey, common, I never said I didn’t want it!
That is why God invented CA glue… 
Cracks bah!
Jon had a bag of tooth picks and some crazy glue and came out with a flute.
I’ve seen it.
You think I’m kidding?
Yes the head looks bad the patent mechanism is busted too usually because some one at some stage had tried to treat it like a normal slide. 
My one plays fine with my Murray head but not as well as it does with the patent head.
Mmmmm. Pity those photos are all so dark. That flute is almost a twin to mine - 450 or so later and no extra Bb touch, but otherwise incredibly similar. Of course, my Patent Head is intact and fully functional, but I don’t have the original case and accoutrements.
I guess the vendor doesn’t know his quatrefoils from his fleurs de lys, but otherwise appears to know what he’s on about! I don’t think the various historic damages should knock too much off the value, especially as he has a top-rank alternative head in the mix. I can’t for the life of me understand why, I as it seems the vendor is a player, he doesn’t clean it all up properly - polish the keys etc. and get that damaged cork lapping fixed before selling. It would sure look better and bump up the presentation!
It is more fun to get the flutes all tarnished and cracked, and watch it emerge from the pile of useless shards. The Patent heads are fun to work on, I guess a new inner liner can be made, or the original can be fixed. There is a slot that gets mucked up with they force the head joint. The flute has potential.