DCM 0180: Alfred G. Badger Flute in C

DCM ledger: "Tube engraved where fingers touch, and around bottom ends. This flute was [originally] bought in 1875, second-hand.... Badger made the extra joint about 1881." Ebonite head extra thinned. Elaborate engraving at head joint surrounding oval gold plaque, lower ferrule, and on the body where the right thumb and left hand first finger upper phalynx make contact with tube.
Instrument type: Flute in C
Medium: Silver, with ebonite (with silver tenon) and silver head joints.; 73.9 cm. (ebonite), 76.5 cm. (silver)
Key Holes System: Boehm system, cylindrical, closed G#, foot to B-flat, post and rod. G# key with duplicate right first finger touch piece, low B-flat lever for left little finger, rollers for C#, C.
Mark Maximum: (lyre) / A. G. BADGER / NEW-YORK / (lyre)
Mark Additional: Mark on ebonite head. Mark on silver head on gold name plate: A. G. Badger / New York (cursive)
Provenance: Oliver Wheaton, Manchester, New Hampshire, 25 May 1921.

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.