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Posted 01 February 2006

Robert Gaskins
and Wes Williams

This page offers a quick way to check whether a single serial number is in the Wheatstone Concertina Ledgersfrom the Horniman Museum. See the links below for full indexes compiled by Wes Williams. (Note that so far onlythe nineteenth-century ledgers are included; the twentieth-century ledgers will be added in the future.)

Look up a Wheatstone Serial Number 1830s to 1890s

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To use the lookup above, begin by entering the serial number you want to look up. Valid serial numbers run from 1 to 999999 (although just over 60,000Wheatstone concertinas have ever been made, the ledgers include mistakes and mis-written numbers up to six digits). Then click on the button that says “Look up that number in the ledgers”, and the results are displayed below. Possible answers include 'none found' or a list of occurrances of that serial number in the ledgers (from one up to fifteenor twenty entries).

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Be careful to check the list of results returned, because serial number entries are notalways what they seem. You will receive all mentions of a serial number, including the first sale, possible second-hand sales,possible rental or on-approval transactions (all these for the earlier years) and manufacturing date (for the later years). But there are also mis-written serial numbers (which are not corrected), serial numbers from instruments of other makers being resold, and serial numbersfrom different kinds of instruments which may be the same. For instance, searching for the serial number 57 returns tworesults, but one appears to be an instrument made by Joseph Scates in 1845, and the other is a 'Double' duet made by Wheatstonein 1851, with no record of an ordinary English concertina of that number.

A number of codes following the serial number are used to signify additional information. Most of them indicate that the ledger shows that the instrument was made by another maker and/or for another dealer, and so the serial number is probably not a Wheatstone number. (Most of these makers are profiled in 'Minor Historic Concertina Makers and Dealers', by Wes Williams.)
Choopulu kalisina subhavela maa tv serial all episodes online. Other codes indicate sales to buyers with serial numbers that may be non-Wheatstone, an unusual model of instrument (such as 'double' duets which had a separate serial number sequence), or improbability of the serial number as read and/or uncertainty in reading the number.
Codes used are:

'A': Made for A. B. Sedgewick
'B': Bass instrument
'C': Made by Rock and Edward Chidley
'D': Double system duet instrument
'E': Harmonium
'F': Notation of 'Frames' plus irregular price
'G': Made by George Case
'H': Anglo-German instrument
'J': Made by John Simpson
'L': Made by Louis Lachenal
'M': Made for J. B. Cramer & Co.
'N': Made by Nickolds
'P': Made for Keith, Prowse & Co.
'R': Made by Rudall
'S': Made by Joseph Scates
'T': Made by Turner
'X': Made by Rock Chidley
'?': Sold to Boosey/Case/Scates with unusual serial
'*': Sold to Boosey/Case/Scates with unusual serial
'+': insertion written vertically near serial 248
'!': Uncertain

Indexes to Ledgers

To study the pattern of serial numbers in the ledgers,it is more convenient to view the indexes to the ledgers. Each index below contains a list of all theserial numbers (or in one case dates) from a single ledger or a group of ledgers, with links to the original page images.

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C104a
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C104a, the 'First Number Book', serial no. 0001 to serial no. 1500 (includes dates 03 May 1834 to 05 April 1849). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 15 December 2005; » go to index

Date Index to Wheatstone Ledger C104a
by Wes Williams: Date index to Wheatstone Ledger C104a, the 'First Number Book', serial no. 0001 to serial no. 1500 (includes dates 03 May 1834 to 05 April 1849). The record for each date entry gives its serial number (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 15 December 2005; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1046
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1046, a sales ledger, dates 30 April 1839 to 05 April 1848 (includes serial no. 16 to serial no. 1495). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 15 December 2005; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1047
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1047, a sales ledger, dates 01 January 1851 to 23 October 1852 (includes serial no. 57 to serial no. 5740). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 15 December 2005; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1048
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1048, a sales ledger, dates 23 October 1852 to 21 March 1854 (includes serial no. 56 to serial no. 7089). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 15 December 2005; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1049
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1049, a sales ledger, dates 21 March 1854 to 04 April 1856 (includes serial no. 52 to serial no. 8452). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1050
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1050, a sales ledger, dates 05 April 1856 to 04 November 1857 (includes serial no. 15 to serial no. 10416). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1051
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1051, a sales ledger, dates 04 November 1857 to 21 October 1859 (includes serial no. 350 to serial no. 11075). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1052
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1052, a sales ledger, dates 21 October 1859 to 30 April 1864 (includes serial no. 19 to serial no. 12152). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1053
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1053, a sales ledger, dates 30 April 1864 to 23 May 1870 (includes serial no. 16 to serial no. 18883). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledger C1054
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledger C1054, a production ledger, dates March 1866 to December 1891 (includes serial no. 18061 to serial no. 21353). The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index

Serial Number Index to Wheatstone Ledgers 1830s to 1890s
by Wes Williams: Serial number index to Wheatstone Ledgers covering the late 1830s to early 1890s.Includes ledgers C1041, C1046, C1047, C1048, C1049, C1050, C1051, C1052, C1053,and C1054. The record for each serial number entry gives its date (if present) and a live link to the photograph of its page in the online ledgers.; Posted 01 February 2006; » go to index