Catalogo Illustrato della premiata fabbrica di armoniche: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New-York, N.Y. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Prizewinning Accordion Factory: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New York, NY]. Firenze: Tip. Valgiusti - Firenze, [1890s].

Catalogo Illustrato della premiata fabbrica di armoniche: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New-York, N.Y. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Prizewinning Accordion Factory: Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., 60 Mulberry Street, New York, NY]. Firenze: Tip. Valgiusti - Firenze, [1890s].

Accordions made by this Italian and American company - at this time based on Mulberry Street in Manhattan - continue to be sold by many dealers, and the Baldoni family still has some involvement, though not in New York.

On the cover, on which is impressed prize winning medals in relief, it states that the company, Baldoni, Bartoli & Co., "i piu grandi importatori e fabbricanti di armonice italiane negli Stati Uniti" (the largest importers and manufacturers of Italian accordions in the U.S.).

This lavishly illustrated color catalogue indeed contains both imported Paolo Soprani accordions and ones of Baldoni, Bartoli's own making (in the U.S.), both button and piano accordion models in both imported and home-grown models. So in music as in politics, philosophy and otherwise, the interrelations between Italy and the U.S. were significant.

Baldoni, Bartoli & Co.

Tip. Valgiusti - Firenze

[1890s]

22 x 14cm; 28 p.

Italian