Emil Rittershausen Boehm System Flute: Museum Object and Cultural History
Emil Rittershausen Boehm System Flute: Date made: 1876-1927. maker: Rittershausen, Emil. Object Name: flute.
The object in the museum catalogue
This flute was made by Emil Rittershausen in Berlin, Germany around 1876 to 1927. It is a Boehm System flute made of ebony with silver ferrules and keys. This flute is stamped:
[Prussian eagle] E. RITTERSHAUSEN BERLIN CARL FISCHER NEW-YORK
Carl Fischer was the exclusive sales agent for Emil Rittershausen flutes in the United States and Canada.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1876-1927
- maker: Rittershausen, Emil
- Object Name: flute
- Physical Description: ebony (overall material)
- Physical Description: silver (overall material)
- Measurements: head joint: 9 1/4 in x 1 3/16 in; 23.495 cm x 3.01625 cm
- Measurements: foot joint: 17 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 45.4025 cm x 4.1275 cm
- place made: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin
- ID Number: MI.65.0810
- catalog number: 65.0810
- accession number: 258892
- Credit Line: Gift of Bonnie Jean McDonald Hartman
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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