“Stamped fly”

Mahoney Music Collection ML755. V52 1876-1878, v. 1 c. 1

On John Mahoney’s recent visit to the Archives and Special Collections, he shared a novelty with the staff. Walking over and picking up a book out of the thousands he has collected over the years, he made a questioning inquiry about a fly. “Is this the book with the fly?” Sure enough…..several pages in, there was the “stamped fly.”

Owner’s mark

The book is Les instruments a archet: les feseurs, les joueurs d’instrument, leur histoire dur le continen by Antoine Vidal.