mike byrne
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What you have is a French made English concertina.
On the inside of the left reed pan it has G 5 which stands for Gauche (left) and on the inside of the right reed pan it will have a D for Droite (right)
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Which West St. label is it?
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Here are some pictures of my 26 button Ab/Eb Jones.
As you can see the letters S and A are cut into the right hand fretwork.
At the top where the makers or sellers name usually is it says
The Salvation Army - Blood and Fire.
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A later question on the same Counterpoint was 'what was George Melly's autobiography called'.
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If it's a Jeffries it will be stamped on one of the rosewood sides.
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Here is a picture of Ralph playing my Wheatstone mini anglo at Bradfield in 2010.
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It did belong to me.
It's now in Neil Waynes Concertina Museum Collection.
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Ebblewhite Label.
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Here is the logo from my (Celebrated Acoustic Band) Dipper.
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How about this one?
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The left hand concertina (picture 1) is my 5 1/2 inch Lachenal Anglo with a normal size 30 key.
When it was opened for restoration, I discovered writing on the reedpan (picture 2), which reads:
THIS INSTRUMENT
PLAYED TROOPS
INTO BATTLE
AT ARMENTIERS
AND CAME OUT
GOOD
Inside the bellows frame (picture 3), it reads:
A. LEWIS
LIVERPOOL
with various battles also listed:
LA SIENE - ANCRE - YESER - MARNE - ASINE
The spelling is dubious, but this is what was written.
A fellow Cnetter has studied the war records and says it might be Pvt A.Lewis 8977 of the 1st Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool), who was a regular soldier form 1914.
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I noticed that my own avatar and that of some others has disappeared.
It took me several shots to achieve this picture of my concertina standing upright on my hand to replicate the one by Bertram Levy (no strings attached).
As I am celebrating my birthday today, I have set a new avatar photo of myself when I was slightly younger!
Mike
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It's almost as big as this Crabb.
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I think he posted in the last couple of days on the (now) Obituary thread for Ralphie Jordan ?
That was John Wild not 'Michael Sam Wild'.
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Having done a little further research, I found images of this 1890's Jeffries.
http://schnefsky-accordionman.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/jeffries-bbf-concertina-1890s-for-sale.html
It would seem the action and reedpans are identical. Is this a Crabb made Jeffries? My anglo definitely doesn't have any makers stamps anywhere, but everything else seems to be exactly consistent with this model, (including pencilled makers notes), other than having wood ends.
Thanks Chris for your earlier reply, what do you reckon to this suggestion?
Ben
Here are some pics of a wooden ended Jeffries.
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Hehe
in Buy & Sell
I first saw this concertina at Dave Leese's house about 10 years ago. It was waiting for repair and for Dave to get an eight sided bellows mould made.
He was repairing it for Chris Algar who bought it from a chap who alledgedly found it in a "rubbish skip".
The ends were all delaminating and Dave was glueing them back piece by piece.
He made new bellows retaining the unusual gold blocked ends and sent it back to Chris for tuning as the reeds were very rusty.
I don't know how many reeds are original.
It was sold to C-Net member Gavin Davenport (gavdav) who in turn sold it to Hehe.
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Geoff Wright plays both plus piano accordion for the Bracken Brigg band.
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Neil Wayne NEVER re-sells instruments that are conserved and protected from "Restoration" in the Concertina Museum -(might do a swap for an 1830s Open Pallet Wheatstone though!)
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Neil Wayne
Not surprising. But how can you tell?
His bid history matches
Member id neilwayne (614)
Mike
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Neil Wayne
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This one might roll off a table.
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Here are some pictures of mine.
Mike
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Sold for GBP 128.89 (US $206.56) to one of four bidders who placed bids in the final ten seconds.It's here. Serial number 1428, very simple fretwork. It's really a collector's instrument rather than a player's one, but I thought that someone here might be interested. I have no connection to the sale.all too predictable... fits the pattern like a glove...
Well, I hope whoever bought this one isn't planning to trash it for the reeds...
Neil Wayne wouldn't do that.
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"20 button" - While theoretically possible, I've never heard of an English (or a duet) with this number of buttons.
However, 20-button anglos are quite common.What about this one Jim?
Jeffries ?
in General Concertina Discussion
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Here is a picture of an early Lachenal of mine with black accidentals.