Re: [Harp-L] Prewar Hohner star I've never seen before, this is awesome.

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

David - 

I've heard the florette or rosette pattern mentioned before by harmonica historian Richard Martin as predating the six-pointed star. Martin thought (and here I'm recalling a casual conversation dating from something like 12 years ago) thought that the rosette pattern dated from early in the 20th centry. Other details of the covers might assist in dating the harmonica - shaping of cover curvature and back edge of the covers, "ear" tabs, etc.

There was also a five-pointed star (no-one knows the reason for either star, but Martin opined that the number of points on the star represented the number of Matthias Hohner's son involved in the business at a given point in time).

Winslow

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L]  Prewar Hohner star I've never seen before, this is awesome.
To: "Harp L Harp L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 12:04 PM

I'll get some pics up before long, but I was getting ready to start this
resto on an Old Old Standby (back when it was a real harmonica) harp. On the
back cover, between the hands was this really weird six-sided star I had never
seen before. It looked like a snowflake almost to me, but it is was probably
meant to be a flower with six petals. Anybody know anything about this? To the
best of my knowledge, it's not on Pat Missin's site. The center of the
star is a small circle with six what appear to be flower petals coming out it. 
My guess is it was made during World War II, maybe, after they dropped the
star-of-David-LIKE star. 
I have never even HEARD of this... any thoughts? 
Dave
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