“Unusual 8 Keyed Rosewood Piccolo 1850s”.
Boss! Maybe after he fails to sell it a few times I’ll stand a chance of picking it up for a more reasonable price - seller wants $1,500 to start.
Not only block mounted but engraved sterling and with low C keys. I did miss out on an auction for an 8 key post-mounted picc; I did win a 6 key “Improved” block mounted job a little while ago.
Hey, I have a “copywright” on “this weeks ebay flute!” 
That looks like a real nice little flute, but I don’t see where it is marked: Rudall & Rose! At least that is what the discription says…Where is Dave? Very nice keywork!!! 
Looks like it is in the key of F?
what about the one on eBay that says “nice flute, stamped ‘Nicholson, London’”? Any chance it’s THE nicholson? Or is it Jack?
I don’t know if it is Jack Nickolson, but Jack has a Nickolson… 
A rare 8 keyed silver mounted rosewood piccolo flute > in the styleand looks > of a miniature 8 keyed Rudall & Rose flute. …
…Solid Silver engraved plaque with 2 letters: CT?
Would CT be the maker or just added on by customer request?
Looks more like Metzler style than R&R to me.
Looks more like a Pask then a Metzler… 
I will have to look through the photos at the Dayton Miller collection and see if I can find similar work. It is amazing that there would be such detail and no makers mark! Unless CT is the makers mark
Here is a example of Pask’s work…
I tend tp associate Metzler with the nickel/silver finger and embochure holes. You have seen more than I have.
I think a lot ofdifferent makers put the ferrels on the tone holes, it was probably to stave off allergic reations to cocuswood. I have had 3 different flutes from different makesrs with these farrels and my Metzler has none.
Nice engraving anyway, to bad it isn’t in D, I would have to scrape up the money!
FWIW, with regards to historic woodwinds, those silver tone hole inlays are (among the old school makers at least) known as “bushings”, while the term “ferrule” is normally reserved for the somewhat wide metal support bands that are sometimes seen on flutes, but more often on pipes, Ren Recorders, and ocassionally some whistles. This to differentiate the two.
Loren
I think it is in D - at 35.6 centimeters = 14.015748 inches, ca. 12 inches is typical for D with 6 key piccolos, which as I mention almost never have a foot joint.
I don’t think it’s worth that much, however!