Item Type: Concertina
BellowsBellows Summary: 5-Fold Lachenal-designed leather bellows, with delicate gilt-embossed leather on the bellows-frames. An early appearance of the new gold and green floral-patterned bellows papers. Some later black leather gusset repairs. Bellows Inside Material: Normal white bellows hinges. Inner Bellows Cradle: A new provision of Twelve triangular mounts (all spread equally around the the inner bellows-frame) to support the reed-pan Bellows Folds and Features: 5-Fold Lachenal-designed leather bellows, with delicate gilt-embossed leather on the bellows-frames. Bellows Leather colour: Dark Green. Bellows Outside Labels: The bellows paper nearest to the bottom of the LH bellows-frame is printed with a full Wheatstone label, "Wheatstone, Inventors & Patentees, 20 Conduit St, Regent St, London". An early appearance of this Bellows Label in the Collection's Wheatstones. |
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Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams
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