Dating Jeffries By The Case Details?

[richard]

Hello

 

In my attempt to find information and photos of Jeffries leather cases inorder to restore mine I am impressed by the subtle differences in details of the few I have seen. Particularly the use of rivets or stitches and even less obvious details. I wonder is there any documented comparisons made of these details that reveals any pattern and would be useful in dating an instrument that accompanies a particular case style?

 

Thanks,

 

Richard

Edited July 8, 2005 by richard

[wes williams]

I wonder is there any documented comparisons made of these details  that reveals any pattern and would be useful in dating an instrument that accompanies a particular case style?

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Not that I'm aware of Richard. I'd suspect that these cases would have been outsourced to specialist case makers and the variations you see might be variations in source as much as date. But there might be a way to date the cases from the locks, an idea that Brian Hayden suggested.

[Stephen Chambers]

Richard,

 

Bearing in mind that they seem to have been pretty much individually hand made, there may be slight differences in detail, but most of the hexagonal leather cases I've seen have been of very much the same basic design.

 

However, they were not the only type of case used by Jeffries, and (from the instruments they contain) it seems reasonable to conclude the following :

 

Hexagonal mahogany = early

Hexagonal brown leather = middle

Square black leather = late

[richard]

Hello Stephen

 

Could you put some dates to those periods of manufacture?

 

Early:

Middle:

Late:

 

Thanks

 

Richard