DCM 1277: Bacon & Hart Flute in C

Register slide in foot.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Boxwood, silver keys, ivory cap, cork-setting mechanism, and ferrules, silver keys.; 60.2 cm.
Key Holes System: 4 keys, saltspoon, pin in block. The lower end of the upper body joint is pre-cross pinned (brass) at the G# tonehole.
Mark Maximum: BACON & HART / PHILA. / (lyre)
Mark Additional: Mark on head, barrel, upper, lower, foot.
Condition: Head joint, lower section, cracked. Foot joint cracked beneath E-flat tonehole.
Provenance: W. A. Butterfield, Boston, 30 Jan. 1936.

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.