My Wheatstone treble English 48 key Aeola is for sale on eBay.
Made at the time of Wheatstone's finest productions, this top of the range model No. 25707 was completed on 2 October 1912 and has been well looked after ever since. 
This outstanding concertina (with only one previous owner!) was carefully restored by Steve Dickinson at Wheatstone's, has beautiful black ebony ends, new six-fold bellows and is tuned to A= 440 Hz. The instrument is in excellent working order throughout, the key action is smooth and the superb original steel reeds give a clear, warm tone with brilliant volume.
I'll be very sorry to see it go.

Hi Ken,
Whats the link? I have tried to find it on ebay but it doesn't seem to be there...
Dave

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wheatstone-Treble-48...86.c0.m14.l1318

It's one of those holes between the fretwork models that someone was trying to keep track of --- model 81's? I can't remember the thread

spindizzy, it was this thread and this concertina has already been mentioned by Stephen Chambers.

I used to have a fabulous treble from less than 2 years earlier, No. 25045, that was also "only one previous owner". It too had been very well looked-after and had never had a thing done to it since it left the factory, so it was still in high pitch (and in tune with itself), but I finished up having to sell it to buy a car...

They made some really great instruments in those years before WWI.

STEPHEN AND FOLKS: great instruments is right. . . .but try to play the mid-19th-c. victorian stuff on it. . . .it's like a bull in a china shop............allan

Allan,

In that case, I wouldn't recommend you to try Alf's box, these would be subtle in comparison...

Sold. There was only one bidder, and that was Chris Algar - a man who knows a good buy when he sees one. I'd have bought it myself, if I'd had the money...

Is that the case that originally came with that concertina? Or better question might be, where could one get a case like that?


Patrick

Patrick,

If I had bought it, I'd have made you a present of that highly unsuitable case!

An instrument of that quality belongs in a well-fitted and corner-blocked hardshell case, if it is to be looked after properly.