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Item Type: Concertina
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Straps and Holding Devices
Straps Summary: Fancy red leather profiled hand-straps, gilt-stamped "Wheatstone", mounted on highly polished transverse hand-bars, and secured by an adjustable gold-plated clasp to one end, and clamped at the other to the hand bar with a rectangular mother o' Pearl plate with two screws.
Thumb-straps Summary: "
Thumb-strap Decoration: Gilt-stamped "Wheatstone",
Thumb-straps Original: Original
Hand-straps Summary: Light brown leather profiled hand-strap mounted on tall transverse hand-bars, and secured by an adjustable nickel clasp to one end, and clamped at the other to the hand bar with a rectangular mother o' Pearl plate with two screws: possibly a contemporsary replacement, since large Duets of the period would have Gilt-embossed and Wheatstone-named straps.
Hand-straps Material: Fancy red leather profiled hand-straps, gilt-stamped "Wheatstone
Hand-straps Decoration: Embossed borders around perimeter, Gilt-stamped "Wheatstone".
Hand-straps Original: Original
Hand-straps Screws & Fittings: Two leather straps each secured by an adjustable nickel clasp to one end, and clamped at the other to the hand bar with a rectangular mother o' Pearl plate with two screws
Neck Strap: Long leather neck-strap, securing to a single gold-plated inset loop to LH bellows-frame.
