DCM 0307: Anonymous Flute in C - Public domain museum object photo

Head joint cap and bottom of instrument are carved. Key cups are engraved and enamelled blue in a 4-leaf clover design. C# keys also decorated and enamelled blue. Monogram currently detached from head joint (gold plate), its position being that of the wide crack in the barrel. Both gilded alignment studs missing from head joint. With original ivory bottom tenon protective cap. DCM ledger quotes letter from Weinberger: "I was told it was made on order for some member of the Imperial Family of Austria.... The golden monogram shows the initials ZI. The Hungarian name of the Count was Szechenyi Istvan, and the first initial ought to be S instead of Z." [Or, instead, Ziegler?]
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Ivory body, cap, and cork-setting mechanism; silver keys, ferrules (gold-plated over), tuning shaft, and gold-plated fingerhole bushings.; 72.9 cm.
Key Holes System: 14 keys, post and rod, modern style key cups, foot to B. Including left thumb D#. Rollers on C.
Mark Maximum: No mark.
Mark Additional: See Notes.
Condition: Fingerhole bushing for 2nd fingerhole right hand is missing, head joint cracked both portions, recently filled.
Case: Standard old system flute case, covered with red morocco leather embossed with gold, white satin and velvet.
Provenance: Eugene Weinberger, New York, 23 Dec. 1922.

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.