DCM 1225: Asa Hopkins Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap and cork-setting mechanism (now missing), silver keys, ivory ferrules.; 59.9 cm.
Key Holes System: 4 keys, flat round flaps, pin in block.
Mark Maximum: A HOPKINS / LITCHFIELD / CONN
Mark Additional: Mark on head, barrel, upper and lower body, foot.
Condition: Head joint cap and cork-setting mechanism missing, DCM recorded it as being present. Head joint lower section cracked, tuning slide frozen. Lower body joint socket has both with-grain and cross-grain cracks and is partly broken off. Foot joint, bottom ferrule, cracked.
Provenance: Caroline Osborn, Cleveland, Ohio, 4 Aug. 1934. Formerly owned by her father, Dr. Moses Willis Osborn, born about 1809 in East Windsor, Connecticut.

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.