American Classical Giltwood Concert Harp, Browne & Buckwell Makers

New York, circa 1870, gesso and gilt wood with black lacquer, brass mounted neck with engraved signature "Browne & Buckwell / MAKERS New York." (Edgar J. Browne and George H. Buckwell), featuring a fluted columnar pillar, soundboard with gilt floral designs within rosewood veneer edges, retaining seven of eight pedals, and raised on carved paw feet.

67 3/4 x 35 x 20 in.

From the Estate of the late Dr. Larry Bridge, Albemarle, North Carolina

Scattered paint and gilt losses and flaking; vertical age crack to the soundboard body not stringed or tested, missing one pedal.