Vintage Silver Christensen Db Flute Handmade Recent Overhaul

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Vintage Christensen Db Flute, Rare!
Instrument type: Flute in Db
Silver body and keys, 62.5 cm in length, 58.5 cm from center of embouchure
Boehm system, closed G#. Foot to C with rollers for C and C#. Soldered toneholes. All posts hard soldered directly to tube.
Mark on barrel: MADE BY / CHRISTENSEN & CO. / BOSTON, MASS. / U.S.A.
There is a serial number on the headjoint and body, both too faint to read. Possibly 805
Original case in good condition, one latch is sketchy.
Very similar to Haynes of the same era, but with simpler key-work.
Professionally restored, this flute is in as-new condition.
One small ding on the lip-plate, one small ding on the crown, neither effects playability.
Yes. It's in Db. If you play in a band with period-instruments, this flute is for you. It plays very nicely in tune at standard tuning of A=440.
One "expert" has posited that this is a high pitch C flute. I assure you, it's in Db. Db flutes were popular in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. For example many if not most of the marches
as published
by Sousa or Fillmore didn't even have a C flute part. I agree, it's a niche item, but as mentioned would be an invaluable addition to a band that plays period instruments.
See photo of this flute compared to a standard C flute of the same era (E. Rittershausen silver flute circa 1920 (above))
I am the second owner of this flute, originally used until the 1950s in a band in upstate New York, I bought it from the son of the original owner/player,  now in his 80s, selling his father's beloved flute.  Instrument sat in a closet for the last 70 years.
A nearly identical Haynes flute is in the collection of The National Museum of American History.  https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_606236
See my other listing for a Christensen piccolo with two headjoints!
Nils Christensen worked for Haynes from 1900 to 1913 until he started his own company. He may also have worked for Bettoney in Boston as well. Christensen seems to have gone into business for awhile with John Schwelm, who later become shop foreman at Powell, after going off into his own flute making venture with William Winthrop Haynes.  1913 is also the year Verne Q. Powell joined the W. S. Haynes workforce.
The point is, that this flute belongs to a fine legacy of flute making in the Boston area in the early 20th century.
Not returnable so please ask questions if needed.
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