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Wheatstone & Co. Concertina Ledgers

Original factory records of production and sales of Wheatstone & Co. concertinas, photographed from the collection of the Horniman Museum. Click for more information.

Wayne C104a	Wayne C1046	Wayne C1047	Wayne C1048	Wayne C1049	Wayne C1050
Numbers 1–1500	Sales 1839–1848	Sales 1851–1852	Sales 1852–1854	Sales 1854–1856	Sales 1856–1857

Wayne C1051	Wayne C1052	Wayne C1053	Wayne C1054	Wayne C1055	Wayne C1056
Sales 1857–1859	Sales 1859–1864	Sales 1864–1870	Production 1866–1891	Payments 1845–1846	Payments 1848–1849

Dickinson SD01	Dickinson SD02	Dickinson SD03	Dickinson SD04	Dickinson SD05
Production 1910–1923	Production 1923–1937	Production 1937–1974	Anglo Production 1953–1974	Daybook 1972–1974

Wheatstone & Co. Concertina Ledgers at the Horniman Museum, London

Historical business records from C. Wheatstone & Co. are held at the Library of the Horniman Museum in London. The earliest ledgers from the Wayne Archives contain company sales records from the late 1830s to the 1860s (though with some large gaps) along with production records from the 1860s to the 1890s and some early records of wages and other payments. Later ledgers from the Dickinson Archives contain production records from 1910 to 1974, again with some gaps. All known ledgers have been digitized and made available free on this website for private research.

Click on one of the two labelled buttons above to see an annotated list of indexes of all twelve Wayne Archives ledgers or of all five Dickinson Archives ledgers.

Click on the picture of any individual ledger above to go to the index for that volume. Each index provides direct access for browsing all the pages of a volume.

Click on the four documents below to learn more about Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers:

Introduction: A project to digitize the ledgers of the C. Wheatstone & Co. concertina factory at the Horniman Museum, London
by Margaret Birley, Keeper of Musical Instruments, Horniman Museum
User Guide for the Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers
How the Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers were Digitized for Publication on the Web and CD
by Robert Gaskins
Order a CD-ROM copy of the Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers

The nineteenth-century ledgers were formerly part of the Concertina Museum collection assembled by Neil Wayne, which was purchased for the Horniman Museum with the generous support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the MGC/Science Museum PRISM Fund. Twentieth-century ledgers have been added on loan from the collection of Steve Dickinson, who acquired these ledgers with his purchase of C. Wheatstone & Co. in 1975.

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