No. 3042
Provenance: Originally installed in Lafitte's Blacksmith shop, Bourbon Street, New Orleans, 1927 a public house that had the distinction of being the surviving building in New Orleans built in 1720 and the oldest bar in continuous license in the United States. Then in the 1950's acquired by a college student who used the instrument to put himself through college. The instrument changed hands multiple times in the following years, from a dealer in New York, to Gerry Cussick of Kansas city, to a collector in Texas, to Ferners Auction house in Kansas city after the collector in Texas got in financial difficulties. Then to Paul Gotrschalk, of Champaign, Illinois and on behalf of J.R.W. fully restored over seven years ( at which time she was named "Racheal") by Craig Brougher of Independence, Missouri. On completion she was shipped to Chicago, then air freighted to New Zealand by J.R. White in 1993. Sold
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