Jeffries Anglo For Sale

[GrandadsSqueezebox]

Following on from my post of the 11th June; my Grandfathers Jeffries Concertina is being auctioned at Gardiner Houlgate on 17th September(please bid generously!). The catalogue is available on-line, and it is Lot 656. Not a very full description given in the catalogue, but as stated previously it is fully restored and tuned to C/G. I can email a short recording of it being played to anyone considering bidding.

[Daniel Hersh]

Here's a link . Can you tell us who did the restoration work?

 

Following on from my post of the 11th June; my Grandfathers Jeffries Concertina is being auctioned at Gardiner Houlgate on 17th September(please bid generously!). The catalogue is available on-line, and it is Lot 656. Not a very full description given in the catalogue, but as stated previously it is fully restored and tuned to C/G. I can email a short recording of it being played to anyone considering bidding.

[GrandadsSqueezebox]

Thanks for the link(beyond my computer skills!). The Jeffries was restored by Nigel Sture of Devon, in June this year. Its history as far as I know it:- My family was firmly based in East London, and both my Great Grandfather & Grandfather worked on the Thames. My Grandfather was a Waterman and I believe the first Jeffries owner. It passed to my father in the 1920's. he was a member of the Homeguard in the 1940's,and I know he played it in the Air-raid shelter during the Blitz to keep up morale. He was unable to play it following a stroke in the 1950's; the last time it was played. I decided to have it restored, because I wanted to hear it before it was sold, and am very pleased I did.