English system. Serial number 37. Label absent. 6.25" bird's eye maple, simple flat fretwork, no label or number hole, curved rosewood block for finger rest, bolts on eyelets, dealer stamp on side: 'Lewis and Co, 90 Cheapside, London.' 48 Flat ivory buttons, black accidentals (2 absent), bushed. Straps absent. One screw cut in half. Five-fold red leather bellows with silver embossed diamond pattern papers, numbers in copperplate inside, plus: 'VM 1846'. Square-end riveted brass reeds, slim pattern, all screwed onto thin pan. Pans stamped '37D' (droit) and '37G' (gauche). Lower reeds have stamps on pan: right-hand: 5, 6, 9, 1; left-hand: 8, 15, 7, 4. Repairer's mark: 'Tamburro Feb 1973. Shelf-like pan cradle, flutina style.
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