DCM 1275: Paine & Hopkins Flute in C

Lip plate apparently not original, applied with silver tacks.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Cocus, silver cap, lip plate, keys, and ferrules (over ivory).; 69.3 cm.
Key Holes System: 9 keys, to low B. Saltspoon, with pewter plugs over square metal plates for low D#-B. Pin in block.
Mark Maximum: PAINE & HOPKINS / Nº 69 CORNHILL / C. N. WEISS'S / IMPROVED. Foot: PAINE & HOPKINS / Nº 69 CORNHILL.
Mark Additional: Mark on upper. Head, twice: C. N. WEISS / IMPROVED. Barrel: C. N. WEISS'S / IMPROVED / PAINE & HOPKINS / No 69 CORNHILL.
Condition: Head joint, both sections, cracked and filled. Middle and lower joint cracked. Foot joint socket cracked inside, missing C# and B-flat key dividing portions of pin block. Portion of G# key block missing. This instrument at some point received an additional block for RH 1st finger alternate B-flat (now missing) which opened the principal B-flat key with an integral prong extending into a hole bored in to the B-flat key cup.
Case: Brass escutcheon inlaid on top of case: NON CRUX SED LUX / (lion rampant).
Provenance: Janet A. Bums, Rochester, New York, 2 Dec. 1935.

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.