DCM 0911: William Bainbridge English Patent Double Flute Flageolet

Also on lower body: (United Kingdom coat of arms) / NEW / PATENT. Key and mouthpiece marked.
Instrument type: English Patent Double Flute Flageolet
Medium: Boxwood, ivory caps, mouthpiece, ferrules, fipple stock caps, silver keys.; 60 cm.
Key Holes System: Left: 0/6 holes plus 4 keys and a 5th key for high C (but for left thumb, instead of LH 1st finger) on the left fipple stock, and hole 1 plugged for half hole vent with ebony. Right: 0/4 holes (hole 4 covered with open-standing key) plus 3 keys. Each pipe terminates with an added lateral vent hole. The left pipe fipple stock includes a cut-off key to be operated by (apparently) either lip or nose.
Mark Maximum: NEW PATENT / (United Kingdom coat of arms with lion, unicorn) / BAINBRIDGE / INVENTOR / 35 / HOLBORN / HILL / LONDON // PATENT
Mark Additional: Mark on barrel, stock. Mark above 1st key: (United Kingdom coat of arms) / BAINBRIDGE / INVENTOR. Mark on lower: BAINBRIDGE / INVENTOR
Provenance: W. Howard Head, London, 8 Feb. 1930.

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.