Tobacco card featuring concertina on UK eBay

[Daniel Hersh]

Item listing is at https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334259532552 .  I have no association with the sale! 

 

Here's what it looks like:

 

[David Barnert]

Curious that although the text references the English Concertina, the image is probably an Anglo (could be a Duet, but certainly not an EC).

[Mike Franch]

11 hours ago, David Barnert said:

Curious that although the text references the English Concertina, the image is probably an Anglo (could be a Duet, but certainly not an EC).

It certainly is curious. But the description of the EC is quite accurate. That makes it even odder. But I love the card!

[Anglo-Irishman]

Yes, and I like the idea of the concertina "occupying a position between the Mouth-organ and the Harmonium!"

When I was a boy, my father had his mouth-organs lying handy in a sideboard drawer, and we had a full-size harmonium (a reed organ, not one of those Indian gadgets!) standing in the living-room. I loved both of them, and now I have an Anglo, a Crane and a Bandoneon. The bandoneon can come very close to the harmonium in sound.

Fascinating, what turns up on eBay!

 

Free reeds in general are fascinating. A friend of mine, who plays and collects barrel-organs, even has a cranked free-reed instrument, known as a "preacher's organ." Needless to say, the punched rolls for it are all American hymns!

 

Cheers,

John

 

 

 

[bazza]

I collected Cigarette cards for years and have this card in my collection and also another card with a Concertina connection on is in the set "Life onboard a Man of War" which shows the Sailors Hornpipe being performed with Concertina playing sailor.

[arkwright]

Here's another one.

[Takayuki YAGI]

Yet another one came up on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/334421058254

Edited April 27, 2022 by Takayuki YAGI
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[Don Taylor]

I guess that we are all "infra dignitatem" then ...

[wunks]

Lowest of the low, well, except for banjo players.....😄

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

I love the picture of that very well dressed corset wearing lady, with the concertina; " Oh, how undignified! (Maybe older generation would possibly have said in reaction?).. " I hope she does not do herself any injury.. positively indecent!"...