Walking stick flute
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 1825
Materials
Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Brass, Silver, Cork
Measurements
850 mm (Length); 30 mm (Dia)
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335305
Summary
Walking stick flute in D, anon, probably South German, c.1825. Stained boxwood, simulating tortoiseshell. One brass key, brass ferrule. Silver head engraved with monogram JWC(?). Head unscrews above cork. Leather wrist loop. In notebook no.4, page 9 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Music Room 93. Walking stick Flute stained in imitation tortoiseshell, with one Key, & Sheffield Top.'
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
JMG or JWC
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 9