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Brass.lady: This looks definitely like a Guichard/Gautrot néocor in 6-ft F and it would be usually sold with a full set of 7 shanks and crooks. It started being sold in France around the early 1840s and I have seen it in catalogues of the Gautrot workshop as late as 1867. A version with Périnet valves also appeared at about 1844. Cornets were also being made in that form and these two instruments with the clavicor were presented as forming a complete family, although not as complete as Saxs Saxhorn-saxotromba family.
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