#Rudall carte serial numbers flute music serial number
#Rudall carte serial numbers flute music series

17 This series overlapped with that numbered in the 18000s, which would seem to mark the beginning of Edward ChidleyвЂ™s 18 production for WheatstoneвЂ™s, the first sale being 18000 on 28th April 1865 (so there is a gap in the sequence of more than 4,000 numbers between the two series).ДЄs noted above ( see note 16), the first notice in MDRA for Louis Lachenal as an independent concertina manufacturer appears in 1859, and I think we can safely assume that his own production commenced sometime around, or shortly after, August 1858 (indeed, many of Lachenal & Co.вЂ™s later directory entries confirm that the business was established in 1858). Louis Lachenal then set up his own business at 8, Little James Street, 16 Bedford Row, London, W.C., though I believe his firm continued to manufacture for WheatstoneвЂ™s until the 13700s series in late 1865/early 1866. 14 By this time WheatstoneвЂ™s serial numbers had reached as high as the 10600s series, 15 though the ledgers are in date-of-sale order, and the numbering is extremely erratic. This would appear to be confirmed by John Crabb having sold the lease of his own house, only a few doors away from the manufactory, on 2nd August 1858. 10,041 of 8th August 1844 13 (for a term of fourteen years), would have expired. 12 My guess, then, is that the contract probably ran until the beginning of August 1858, when Charles WheatstoneвЂ™s Patent, No. Lachenal seems to have been manufacturing for WheatstoneвЂ™s on a contract basis, and would have owned the machinery and made the tooling himself. Wheatstone & Co.вЂ™, 9 and it is interesting to note that they were only about a quarter of an hourвЂ™s walk from Charles WheatstoneвЂ™s house, in Lower Mall, Hammersmith, 10 suggesting that he was probably taking an active interest in the venture. The Chiswick Rate Books show both to have been owned by вЂMessrs.

#Rudall carte serial numbers flute music serial number

Unfortunately the Wheatstone вЂRed BookвЂ™ 4 ledger for the period 6th April 1848вЂ“31st December 1850 is missing, so I cannot be more specific about the date, though the highest serial number in the previous ledger 5 is 1495, sold on 14th November 1847, and the last recorded sale is that of 1126, a second-hand instrument, to George Case, 6 on 5th April 1848.Дuring the years 1853-1858, Lachenal occupied Alpha and Omega Cottages, British School Lane, 7 Chiswick, as a вЂHouseвЂ™ and вЂManufactoryвЂ™, 8 respectively ( see Fig. 3 The first instruments have numbers in the 1500s series, the earliest example that I know of being number 1563 in my own collection ( see Fig. by Louis Lachenal, started to be sold in, or shortly after, April 1848. Concertinas of a new-and revolutionary-вЂmass producedвЂ™ model, 2 manufactured for C.