Boxwood flute with horn bands and one brass key, signed "(sunburst) / Pott-----r / (sunburst)" made by Pottgiesser in Elberfeld c.1810. Length 61.7cm. Sounding length 53.5cm. Elegant key design.
Good original condition, recently repadded, playable.
Price £1600.00
Instrument #327

Boxwood flute, with three left hand joints, with horn bands and one brass key, signed "(four triangles) / STEINER / D" made in Germany or Bohemia in the early 19th century. Length (with longest joint) 63.8cm. Sounding length 54.6cm. Bore flares out at end of foot joint
Three short repaired cracks in foot joint. recently repadded, playable. The dark lines on two of the left hand joints are a discolouration of the wood. In modern fitted case.
Price £3500.00
Instrument #328

Silver plated Moyse model flute, signed "MONOPOLE (in ornamented crescent) / COUESNON / & CIE / A PARIS / M.Moyse (cursive)" made c.1940. Length 66.7cm. Sounding length 59.4cm. This flute is basically a covered hole Boehm system with an extra key for C# and extensions to several keys to place the fingers in different positions to the normal Boehm flute. It was developed, in collaboration with Couesnon, c.1932 by Marcel Moyse who favoured plated rather than solid silver flutes.
Generally in good original condition with old pads. In original fitted case.
Price £1200.00
Instrument #326
References
"COUESNON 94, RUE ANGOULEME PARIS-XI, CATALOGUE ILLUSTRE 1934" p.62 which describes and illustrates a Moyse model flute.

Boxwood flute with ivory bands and eight brass keys (one with a double touch) signed "* / WIDMENN / FREIBURG / *" made c.1840. Length 67.0cm. Headjoint and barrel metal lined. In original, paper covered, cardboard case.
One repaired crack in headpoint and two repaired cracks in barrel. Recently repadded.
Price £1200.00
Instrument #298

Silver plated Boehm system flute (with additions), signed "LAUBE / La Couture Boussey / (Eure) / BREVETE / S.G.D.G." made c.1900. Length 68.3cm. Sounding length 60.5cm. A curioues model with an extra high trill key and a second touch for the G#.
In good original condition, two minor small dents in the body, worn pads.
Price £1250.00
Instrument #251

African blackwood Bb bass flute with plated metal headjoint (ebonite reform embouchure) and plated metal keywork, signed "DOUGLAS / GLASGOW" made c. 1870
Plating worn on headjoint, dents in headjoint on curve, soldered repair to D# key, the long F key a replacement or added later, old white leather pads.
Price £800.00
Instrument #244

Boxwood flute with ivory bands, three corps de rechange and one silver key, signed "PELEGRIN / DE'AZZI / VENEZIA" made in the early 19th century. Flutes from Venice are rare.
In very good original condition.
Price £9500.00
Instrument #233

Cocuswood left handed flute with silver bands and eight silver keys, signed "C.NICHOLSON'S / IMPROVED" on the headjoint, "2558 / CLEMENTI & CO / LONDON / C.NICHOLSON'S / IMPROVED" on the body, made c.1830. Length 66.1cm. Has the flattened area between the RH fingerholes as recommended by Nicholson.
Repaired cracks in head joint and barrel. Needs repad to be playable.
Price £2300.00
Instrument #229

Boxwood flute with ivory bands and seven silver keys, signed "W.MILHOUSE / LONDON / 337 OXFORD STT" made c.1825. Length 67.2cm.
In good condition, recently repadded, playable. Short repaired crack in head joint.
Price £1200.00
Instrument #225

Boxwood flute with bone bands and six silver(?) keys, two with double touches, one with double holes, signed "(six petalled flower) Klein (six petalled flower) / Coln / (six petalled flower)" made c.1840. Length 60.8cm.
In good original condition. Needs clean and repad to be playable.
Price £1800.00
Instrument #205

Cocuswood conical Boehm system flute with maillechort keywork, signed "L.L. / LOUIS LOT / PARIS / 2793 / BREVETE" made c.1881. Length 67.0cm. Sounding length 59.3cm. In original, leather covered fitted case with cocuswood tenon covers, greasebox, screwdriver and key,
In very good original condition. Old pads but in good condition. The case worn with a small amount of the covering missing.
Price £5300.00
Instrument #208

Silver plated Boehm system flute, signed "AB (monogram) / ATE / BONNEVILLE / PARIS / 5434" made c.1920. Length 68.0cm. Sounding length 59.9cm. In original case (lacking outer covering), signed inside the lid "Bonneville / 140 BD RICHARD-LENOIR / PARIS"
Plating a bit worn on some keys, the tenons and on the tube where left and right hand thumbs rest. Pads worn.
Price £1400.00
Instrument #194

Cocuswood conical Boehm system flute with silver mounts and keywork (with Dorus G#), signed (faint stamp) "MARTIN /Freres / PARIS" made c.1850. Length 66.5cm. Sounding length 58.1cm. In old, probably original, velvet lined, mahogany veneered case.
Generally in very good original condition. Short crack in foot joint, silver band to end of foot joint not original. A very interesting beautifully made flute, the embouchure silver lined and all the fingerholes, inside the rings, covered in silver.
Price £2700.00
Instrument #182

Ebonite flute with gold plated silver keywork, signed "(crown) / A.COLLARD & CO / PATENT / 211 OXFORD STREET / LONDON W. / No 136" made c.1885. Length 65.5cm. Sounding length 58.4cm. In original, leather covered, case.
Needs complete overhaul, old soft solder repair to one key. Worn gold plate.
Price £1500.00
Instrument #139
References
English Patent No.5266 taken out in 1880 by C.A.Drake. Basically a copy of Rudall Carte's 1867 system with a few variations.

Boxwood flute with horn bands and six brass keys, signed "(Hapsburg eagle) / I.W.LAUSMANN / LINZ / (six pointed star) / C" made c.1855. Length 60.5cm. Metal lined headjoint. In original cardboard case lined in woven felt.
In very good original condition, recently repadded.
Price £1400.00
Instrument #109

Silver plated Boehm system flute, signed "LYON GRAND PRIX 1894 / F.BARBIER BTE S.G.D.G. / Couesnon et Cie / PARIS / 664" made c.1895. Length 68.0cm. Sounding length 60.5cm. Flared end to foot joint. In original, leather covered case with broken hinge.
In very good original condition. Old pads.
Price £1400.00
Instrument #111
References
Portrait of Florentin-Pierre Barbier in his 4pp Catalogue c.1895.