Early 20th century English rosewood and nickel mounted flute by and stamped Rudall Carte & Co. 23 Berners Street Oxford Street London, no. 7103, with eight keys on wooden blocks, fitted rosewood case - Estimate: 100-150
Mid 19th century English rosewood and nickel mounted flute by Henry Fentum, stamped H. Fentum 6 Surrey Street Strand London, with eight keys on wooden blocks, within a fitted rosewood case - Estimate: 200-300
Rosewood and nickel mounted eight key flute, unstamped (a.f); together with rosewood piccolo with a single brass key (2) Estimate: 60-100
Four row Anglo concertina by and stamped C. Jefferies Maker, with forty-six buttons on pierced metal ends, gilt tooled leather sides and six-fold bellows, box (a.f); together with an old leather concertina case (2) Estimate: 1500-2500
Gardiner Houlgate Auction Rooms in Bath, UK has a musical instruments auction on Sept 14th. The flutes mentioned above are on page three of the catalogue, lots 113 and 115. There is also a Monzani flute a little later on, lot 215, and several others. The estimate seems low for the Rudall! Here’s the link …
Unfortunately, my timing is slightly off. I’m arriving in the UK to visit my family a little later in the day on Sept 14th. It would have been fun to head over there. I’ve never been to a real auction.
Most of these will likely turn up on eBay with inflated starting prices from Phil’s Historic Instruments!
#7103 looks nice.
Ah, interestingly, “101-117: Miscellaneous Instruments from the estate of Alan Ginsberg” - presumably as in the pipes-maker (and he made a few flutes years back). I hadn’t heard of his demise. My 8-key Rudall Carte F flute came from him via eBay.
