Antique Bass Recorder with Brass Keywork, 19th Century, Three-Piece Wooden Recorder, Restoration Project 50s spanish pottery The hang tag also reads

The hang tag also reads “Maison Fabre a Millau depuis 1924”

It measures 2 5/8 in length - the sterling silver hook has a length of 1 1/2

taken at the armpits

probably a manufacturing byproduct

While English firms also produced similar designs

Antique Bass Recorder with Brass Keywork, 19th Century, Three-Piece Wooden Recorder, Restoration Project 50s spanish pottery The hang tag also readsThis antique bass recorder is an expertly crafted nineteenth century wooden instrument, likely dating to the late Victorian period, circa 18701900. Although unsigned, its quality of constructionincluding individually mounted brass keywork, traditional three piece construction, turned wooden fontanelle (key cover), and finely finished woodsuggests that it was made by a skilled workshop, probably in Germany, for serious musical use rather than as a