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English system. Serial number 2561. Oval paper dealer's label: 'From C Roylance, Manufacturer and Professor of the Concertina and Harmonium, 58 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London.' 6.19" diameter flat figured rosewood ends, simple frets and pine backing. 48 keys: 24 each side. Ivory, black accidentals, stamped. Green leather straps, right-hand broken, with nickel screws. Four-fold leather bellows, painted black. Traces of embossed papers. Round-end pale brass reeds.
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