DCM 0611: Claude Laurent Flute in C

DCM ledger: "Each key has an AMETHYST or GARNETT [sic] as big as the key, mounted on the upper surfaces (only other specimen like this is in the Paris Conservatory Museum)....outer surface is cut in diamond-shaped facets."
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Clear glass, clear red glass (amethyst or garnet) cap and keys, silver keys, posts, rods, flanges.; 62 cm.
Key Holes System: 4 keys, modern-like key cups, post and rod on silver flanges, bolted to body of instrument which is soldered to foot joint socket ferrule.
Mark Maximum: C, LAURENT À PARIS 1818 / Breveté. (cursive)
Mark Additional: Mark on barrel, foot. Under end cap glass spacer: C: Laurent / à Paris / 18[18].
Case: Case marked: C.D. (on inlaid pearl plate)
Provenance: André Rossignol, Paris, 28 July 1926.

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.