Patr Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Hi, I tried to check age of concertinas, but could not find anything under codes 53318 and 53152 Please asist re age and value. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Pictures could be helpfull. Are you sure these are Wheatstone concertinas ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conband Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 indeed. It sounds more like a Lachenal number rather than Wheatstone. Sometimes they can look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conband Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Indeed. it sounds more like a Lachenal number rather than Wheatstone. Sometimes at first glance they can look quite similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 18 hours ago, Patr said: I tried to check age of concertinas, but could not find anything under codes 53318 and 53152 59 minutes ago, Geoff Wooff said: Pictures could be helpfull. Are you sure these are Wheatstone concertinas ? 26 minutes ago, conband said: it sounds more like a Lachenal number rather than Wheatstone. Sometimes at first glance they can look quite similar. If it were a Lachenal, it would be from well before 1900, so I expect difficult to confuse with a late Wheatstone. Assuming that Pat knows what he's talking about, I did a little searching and found this article by Bob Gaskins. (Still exists, but no longer accessible from its original location?) Lots to read, but worth reading through. It appears to confirm my own suspicion that there's a ledger that's been lost -- so of course it's missing from the Horniman collection, -- which would have covered Wheatstone serial numbers 50001 through 55471. According to that article, your two instruments should be from the period 1948-1950. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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