Baroque Viennese Oboe by Johann Ziegler

Baroque Viennese Oboe by Johann Ziegler, Vienna, ca.1830 Boxwood - Restored
From katepate_2012 on ebay
Sold for $5370 in 2018

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Baroque Viennese oboe by Johann Ziegler, Vienna, ca.1830 boxwood - complete restored. Free of cracks on the wood or damages. All original. New pads and strings. Recently complete restored in Germany. Excellent playing condition. Museum condition. Stamped on all three joints: [Hapsburg eagle] / I. ZIEGLER / WIEN. / Built of boxwood with mounts and 10 brass round keys and two ring keys. Tuning slide to the top joint, A=440Hz, all length - 54.6cm. It survives in perfect original condition. Without a case. Will be shipped in a case for clarinet. Made ca.1820-1830.

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I'm a sucker for boxwood and ivory instruments (yes, I'm against poaching for ivory; not a topic I want to get into here).

I'm virtually positive that the rings on the lower joint, mounts, and the rest of the assembly -- which are more silver colored than the rest of the instrument -- are not original. Check out https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163934?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents and http://collections.nmmusd.org/Exhibitions/BeethovenBerlioz/BBZiegler.html.