Rudall & Rose nr 3952 is on E-bay now. The flute is in Australia. Two repaired cracks: barrel and head joint (a long crack runs the length of the head joint passing near the embouchure hole) with box (separated lid)
http://www.ebay.com/usr/simionsc1988?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
Item number: 111436248698
This one is new to the catalogue database, too.
No background on it at all.
but…it appears to be part of a new sequence batch of flutes in that serial number.
The flutes just before it are different in construction, and those after it match up closely.
fwiw
That will really help drive up the price…
Good job…
David do you mean that the Eb salt spoon key is a change in construction? As I have 3869 with a pewter Eb and next 3952 with a salt spoon Eb key, then comes 4031, then 4117, both with pewter Eb keys.
Looks like Mr. Olwell is running the price up.
Doesn’t Mr. Olwell already have 40 Rudall flutes?
At least that’s the impression I got from “The Keymaster”.
They say:
You can never be too thin. . .
You can never have too much RAM memory. . .
And apparently, You can never have too many Rudall & Rose Flutes! 
Bob
no, STeamy…i meant that the hole sizes and basics of the flute match up.
the data suggests that the flutes were made in batches outside the shop (not all, of course , but by this time many), and when that was done it was clearly easier to cut/work flutes of the same bore construction (medium holes or large holes, etc) in batches. That’s often how it’s fairly easy to spot how the flutes were likely made in the same shop.
Not always the case, in that serial numbers seem to have been assigned at the time of the sale (the cross-over of addresses in the sequence being the key indicator of this)…but typically the flutes matched up closely enough to make this generalized deduction of “batches.”
There might be some slight differences, but it appears not many.
now, that was cheap…
I can’t see the item any more … what price did it go for? And has anyone got a link that still works to see the original listing?
2.333 Australian dollars = 1311 sterling = 1641 euros = 2173 USD = 15.015 Swedish crowns. I don’t know who placed the winning bid though, it wasn’t Aaron.
Thanks Francesco. 
For those of you in the USA and the pink bits, unfamiliar with European conventions, before you rush off to Australia or Sweden to buy flutes, here is a transliteration of Steampacket’s numbers:
2,333 Australian dollars = 1,311 sterling = 1,641 euros = 2,173 USD = 2,535 CAD = 15,015 Swedish crowns.
Looks like the flute will be coming to California! 
I will probably be restoring it for the new owner…
Stay tuned!
At $2,800 restored, makes me think, who would want to buy a new copy for $4,500 when they could have a original?
Talk like that could drive the prices back up… 
I wish…