Pochette
date: label: Date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This pochette was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknown, probably 19th century. It is a composite instrument with a one-piece table of spruce with orange-brown varnish, body made from a single piece of maple painted black, crude maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and orange-brown varnish.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This object is composed of unrelated fragments and does not appear to have ever functioned as a musical instrument in this form. The elongated narrow table with S-holes is joined to a solid back with four hollow facets. The violin neck is terminated in a crude pegbox and scroll. Acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>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.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095292
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95292
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pochette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 20 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 51.7525 cm x 8.255 cm