Square Wheatstone, English, Ebony. On Ebay today. Is this rare?

[robert stewart]

Who else has seen the square ebony Wheatstone English that is newly listed on Ebay today?

I tried to copy the main photo, but without success. Who knows about this model?

 

be there, or be Square

 

RJ

[Richard Mellish]

Here's a link  https://tinyurl.com/2pjprdth

 

Both the dealer and the instrument appear to be genuine.

 

EDIT: I see there's another thread:

 

Edited May 7 by Richard Mellish
Added link to other thread

[Mike Acott]

There is another feature that I have not seen on a Wheatstone instrument, With 5 fold bellows I would think it is around mid 19th century,probab.ly a Baritone

[Myrtle's cook]

I recall Barleycorn had a similar [treble] concertina on their website about a year ago, labelled Roylance if I recall correctly.

[Rikki]

A little like this one only not quite as square?

 

https://www.facebook.com/concertinadoctor/posts/heres-an-interesting-concertina-a-roylance-baritone-concertina-unusually-it-has-/2865066870249215/

[gcoover]

And then there is this one from an old cnet thread in 2007:

 

 

[Myrtle's cook]

Rikki - that may well be it - memory playing tricks! And a baritone indeed.