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| 1672 | French Horn | Hoyer | 105665 |
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| compensating double in French ascending system detachable bell, mechanical linkage. Made in Klingenthal, Germany before 1985. engraved: Meister Hans Hoyer | ||||||||
| 2311 | French Horn | Couesnon | F/Bb |
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| Engraved: COUESNON | Paris | MONOPOLE } CONSERVATOIRE with presentation: Offert par la Maison COUESNON | à Monsieur Georges Pruvost | 1er prix du conservatoire de Paris | Année 1939 compensating valves. The 3rd valve ascending. "The system of ascending valve was very much used in France at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of 20th." | ||||||||
| 2432 | French Horn | Couesnon | Bb |
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| Bb ascending 3rd valve | ||||||||
| 2816 | French Horn | Besson | 582841 | 1890-5 | F |
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| ASCENDING VALVE 1895 Engraved: « Système Prototype | F. BESSON | Breveté S.G.D.G | 96 rue d’Angouleme | PARIS Stamped on the 2d valve: F. Besson breveté | 58 281 Bell: 27.5 cm | ||||||||
| 4251 | French Horn | Selmer | 923 | 1934 | F/Bb |
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| Engraved: Henry SELMER PARIS | SELMER | Depose | Brevete France & Etranger | SELMER | Fabrique en France | Par H. Selmer | Place Dancourt PARIS | Made in FRANCE | R Second valve: 923 compensating valves. The 3rd valve is ascending. | ||||||||
| 4584 | French Horn | Besson | 91192 |
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| Ascending with 4 valves Engraved: Système prototype | F. BESSON | Breveté | S.G.D.G | 96, rue dangouleme | PARIS | Une étoile | 66 hautes récompenses | 6 grands prix | hors concours | Membre du jury | On the 2d valve : F. BESSON | Breveté | 91192 | On the 4th valve : F. BESSON | Breveté | 8 | Bell: 27.5 cm | ||||||||
| 4652 | French Horn | Knopf | Prager | High F |
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| single Prager system 4 valve high F horn Descant horn with a 4th valve for low notes screw bell intonation problems of the high F horn eliminated with pinky valve which gives the open Bb horn series. 4th valve is reversible (descending/ascending) original mechanical linkage replaced with a teflon ball-and-socket linkage. | ||||||||
