Item Type: Wheatstone Concertina Catalogue

Summary

Full Description: From the Ruth Askew Collection. A C Wheatstone and Co Price list of "Wheatstone" English Concertinas, coded 3M, I 38 (3000 printed, January 1938?).
This large single-sheet Brochure (460 x 293mm) is folded twice to make an 8pp leaflet, almost in the modern A5 size. It illustrates all the models and qualities of the English and Æola, with potted histories of the instrument and its players. This copy  is over-stamped in ink '(incorporating LACHENAL & CO)', a rare indication of  Wheatstones' late 1930s acquisition of the remains of the Lachenal & Co concertina manufacturing business. This edition printed by "Higgins, Printer, Bath". An earlier edition from October 1931 (with details of Tenor Treble Models No 7b and 11a added in ink) is Item NC.2.1.1-004    in the Collection, and a version from 1934 is Item NC.2.1.1-003 . The copy that is Item NC.2.1.1-010  is also coded "3M, I 38".

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 2.1.1-011