Vintage Concertina For Sale

[christian]

Nice vintage Lachenal 31 button concertina with serial number 162756.

 

Mahogany ended with ebony buttons,

marked ENGLISH MAKE TRADEMARK and steel reeds.

6 folded bellows with small green golden stars on the papers.

Rare original Ab/Eb pitch, sure nothing for most of you............;-)

Very good original (untouched) condition.

 

Please see all posts, people helped with.

 

Feel free to ask for more detailed fotos!

 

I will sell for 550 EURO, included registered shipping!

 

 

 

the baby and its box

 

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bellows

 

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makers imprint

 

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close up of a reed and serial

 

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inner of mechanism part (both sides)

 

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and close up of buttons

 

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Feel free to ask any question and for more detailed fotos

in case of interest !!!!!

 

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Best regards to all folks helping with details about my Jeffries Crabb, i offered

before christmas!!!!!!!

Edited February 13, 2006 by christian

[Daniel Hersh]

Christian, can you show us a photo of the other end? And if you can somehow find out what keys this is in and whether it's in modern pitch, that would be very helpful too.

 

My guess is that this is a Lachenal, but others are far more qualified to make that call than I am.

 

Daniel

 

I´m offering another find from south of germany.

For this i need YOUR help again.........;-)

Vintage 31 button concertina with serial number 162756.

Rosewood ends with ebony buttons, marked ENGLISH MAKE TRADEMARK and steel reeds.

6 folded bellows with small green golden stars on the papers.

pulling in and out tone is different, again i do have no idea of pitch and

tune

About condition:

All buttons are working, instead of a few, tones are responding

good.

Only about 5-6 reeds with very minor rust points.

Inner of right (mechanism) side is more dusty, left is very

clean.

Bellows without any visible leaks , rents or anything.

Both wooden ends with some stress cracks, only one of them

is caves a little.

Box with sallied shut (three small parts seperated) and much

traces of usage and old.

[christian]

please email to:

 

mercatore@t-online.de

 

daniel,

please what do you need?

the side with serial or the other?????

thanks

[JimLucas]

please what do you need?

the side with serial or the other?????

The photos above include two of the left-hand end, but none of the right-hand end. So the right end is what's needed.

[christian]

thanks, and here we go....;-)

[Paul Read]

Christian,

 

It looks like a mahogany-ended Lachenal to me. Slightly better than the usual mahogany-ended ones (fancier fretwork, 6-fold bellows) but not as good as the rosewoods.

[michael rowbotham]

Just wanted to add a word - I was lucky enough to buy Christians previous concertina - the Crabb Jeffries. Apart from saying he's a top guy, and very trustworthy, in all the discussions we had Christian took great trouble to describe the concertina fairly, hiding nothing - for instance the photos he showed were the 'worst' reeds (most were mint) he pointed out where gluing/repairs had been carried out. This was useful because he's not a player himself. So anyone who's interested in this model of concertina, I can personally vouch that although not coming from a 'playing' source, there's a good chap at the other end.

And just to concur with others, yes it looks like a 30 button mahogany Lachenal in pretty nice condition.

[christian]

hello everybody,

i´m glad to tell all of you that my Lachenal is definetly pitched in Ab/Eb

this might be not so interesting for most of you, but is more rare and great for singing with.

with a little help from my friend this information was possible.

he told me that the pads maybe needs to be replaced, to make it more soundful.

hope that helps in deciding to buy or not...........;-)

i would ask 1400 EUR, but do an offert.

cheers

[christian]

hi everybody,

because of questions:

i took down the price to 1200 EURO

might be more interesting, because of the work to do.

thanks for offerts and questions

cheers

christian

[christian]

hello everybody,

special offert for all of you........

900 EURO included registered shipping.

this must be a REALLY good price.

think about it and let me know your thoughts.

thanks for interest

christian

[christian]

hi,

will anyboy do an offert?

thanks..............;-)

[christian]

hi there,

i will sell for 550 EURO, included shipping.

if there will be nobody paying that price,

i will take my biggest hammer.........;-)

cheers

christian

[Daniel Hersh]

Christian--

 

If you find no takers here, you might try Chris Algar at Barleycorn Concertinas to see if he might be interested.

 

Daniel

 

hi there,

i will sell for 550 EURO, included shipping.

if there will be nobody paying that price,

i will take my biggest hammer.........;-)

cheers

christian

[christian]

hi there,

it´s sold!

i´m pending the money....;-)

thanks all of you helping, and

sure i will not forget the donation!!!!

see you

christian