DCM 1518: I. Ziegler Flute in C

Lower joint socket is encircled with a decorative animal horn ring underneath a nickel silver ring. All possibly original or an early repair attempt.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Ebony, ivory head, nickel silver cork-setting mechanism, keys, and ferrules.; 70.75 cm.
Key Holes System: 12 keys, foot to B, saltspoon, with pewter plugs over metal-lined holes for C#, C, and B. Pin in block. Metal-lined blocks and pinholes for E-flat, C#, C keys, and both B-flat levers.
Mark Maximum: (Hapsburg eagle) / I:ZIEGLER / WIEN.
Mark Additional: Mark on head, and upper body.
Condition: Head joint, both sections, cracked entire length. Plaque detached.
Provenance: Robert J. Shackleton, Louisville, Kentucky, 1933.

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.