"As Dick said, not worth much - EBarnacle's 'as a curiosity' sums it up quite well... certainly not a serious musical instrument, sadly".

Hello!.. I have to object a bit to some of the demeaning statements here. Is not an Arnold Bandoneon - favoured by many high level tango musicians - a "serious musical instrument" ? Or common "Chemnitzer" Konzertinas? They have got the same basical technical construction as German sixsided Konzertinas of this kind. "We" are dominantly Anglofils on this site and obviously tend to regard only British style concertinas as "serious musical instruments" while the musical standard mostly is set by the musician, not the instrument, unless the instrument is "seriously" out of order.Depends or what you intend to play. Since the probably the majority of Anglo players practise very simple folk tunes with very limited note range an instruemnt of this kind would do pretty well (if in original working order). Keep in mind that when the Irish concertina idiom grew from the beginning this was just the kind of instruments which were most common!