DCM 0903: Gerock & Wolf Flute in C

Three scribed lines on both the cork-setting mechanism and the head joint tuning barrel indicate that this flute may have had 3 corps de rechange.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap, cork-setting mechanism, and ferrules, silver keys, metal-lined head.; 60.15 cm.
Key Holes System: 4 keys, square flat flap. Toneholes bushed with brass tubes.
Mark Maximum: (unicorn head) / GEROCK & WOLF / 79 / CORNHILL / LONDON
Mark Additional: Mark on barrel. Mark on head, upper, lower, and foot: GEROCK & WOLF / LONDON
Condition: Head joint, both sections, widely cracked, including both ferrules. DCM ledger: "Received in perfect condition; head and barrel cracked Dec. 23, 1929." The average width of both cracks is nearly 3 millimeters and they both have been filled with what is apparently a homemade compound stained to nearly the color of the instrument but also passing through the corresponding cracks in the ivory ferrules. This is some of the most crude repair work in the Miller Collection and Miller's notes do not indicate that he was responsible. B-flat key spring broken.
Provenance: Harold Reeves, London, 15 Nov. 1929. Formerly in the collection of E. P. Warren, Lewes, Sussex, England.

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.