Description
Tuning fork & Staff pen for ruling sheet music
Lot 77: Tuning Fork and Rare Staff Pen for Ruling Sheet Music
$3,540.00
Lot 77: Tuning Fork and Rare Staff Pen for Ruling Sheet Music
$3,540.00
Estimate: $800 – $1,200
Price Realized: $3,540
Cast steel tuning fork, tapered handle, “901, Tuning Fork”, 4 3/4″ l; Maple and brass staff pen, exceptionally devised and constructed with five points for drawing a music staff, shows remnants of black ink, attributed to Isaac Newton Youngs (1793-1865), New Lebanon, NY, “875, Ruling pen for Sheet Music”, 3 1/4″ l; (Bissland collection).
