Harmonica boy - home front

[byron ed]

Saw this image on a bidding site of what appears to be a CW-era boy with a period harmonica, but no i.d. so I suppose post-war when harmonicas actually became popularly available (they weren't readily available to soldiers in the CW, but we reenactors just gotta have 'em around the campfire).

Can't identify the handsome lad, but can anyone here speak to the type, make and model of harmonica and when it was produced?

 

[Eleanor Rose]

What a great pic @byron ed! I don't know anything about harmonicas, but the little boy is adorable.

 

[byron ed]

We can't actually know that it was or was not a CW period image, but it has that look. I.D. of the harmonica model would pin it down some.

 

[JOHN42768]

Great photo. Had to have been a heart breaker when he grew up

 

[donna]

Wonderful photo.

 

[ErnieMac]

They weren't readily available in the US until the 1860s, but were popular in Germany as early as the 1820s