Trumpet Marine (composite): Museum Object and Cultural History
Trumpet Marine (composite): date made: 19th century. Object Name: Trumpet Marine (composite instrument). Object Name: trumpet marine (composite instrument).
The object in the museum catalogue
This trumpet marine was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknown, probably 19th century. It is a composite instrument with a table of spruce with two C-holes, back of seven strips of slab-cut hardwood, grafted walnut neck terminated in a poplar cello pegbox and closed scroll with two volutes, and opaque brown varnish.
The object is composed of unrelated fragments and does not appear to have ever functioned as a musical instrument in this form. However, the grafted neck bears an interesting 18th century violoncello pegbox and scroll fragment. Acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892.
Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 19th century
- Object Name: Trumpet Marine (composite instrument)
- Object Name: trumpet marine (composite instrument)
- Physical Description: spruce (overall material)
- Physical Description: hardwood (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 6 1/8 in x 9 3/4 in x 63 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 24.765 cm x 161.29 cm
- ID Number: MI.095281
- accession number: 26256
- catalog number: 95281
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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