Interesting find while looking for stock photos...

[Matthew Heumann]

Stumbled across this interesting English from ~1900, a custom production. Has this been posted before? Maker? Any detailed history?

Lots a additional views at bottom of webpage.

https://www.alamy.com/an-fw-gibbs-baritone-concertina-image534776948.html

[Stephen Chambers]

I'd have have no doubt that it's an early octagonal Aeola made by Wheatstone's - the bell-shaped area of fretwork is not unusual around 1900, like this one: Wheatstone 56-key treble Aeola, metal ends, c. 1902

 

 

 

Added dropped letter

Edited August 31 by Stephen Chambers

[Geoffrey Crabb]

Some info regards the original owner, Frederick Walter Gibbs, here 

 

https://www.deddingtonhistory.uk/people/indexg/gibbsfamily/gibbsfamily-steveandchristinesaffinsresearch/frederickwgibbsb.1856-descendants

 

Geoff