Photo of DCM 0981: Stiegler Flute in C - Public domain dedication

This instrument appears to be an inexpensive grade of the period, and fingerhole 6 is unusually small (approximately 3.4 millimeters) and placed unusually low on the lower body joint.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Unidentified wood, brass key, animal horn ferrules.; 60.9 cm.
Key Holes System: 1 key, round flat flap, pin in block.
Mark Maximum: (lion rampant) / STIEGLER / MÜNCHEN / (two 5-pointed stars)
Mark Additional: Mark on head, upper and lower body, foot.
Condition: Head joint ferrule missing. Badly cracked at the head joint socket, almost back to the embouchure hole area.
Provenance: Sigmund Koch, Munich, 27 Aug. 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.