| ID |
Instrument |
Maker |
Model |
Serial# |
Manuf. Date |
Key/Pitch |
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| 8886 |
Cornet |
Osgood |
|
1861 |
|
LP/HP |
 |
| Engraved: MADE BY C.W. OSGOOD CO. | Osgood | ELKART -IND-
Union Label
July 1910 patent
|
| 7182 |
Tenor Horn |
Pepper |
Premier |
11465 |
|
LP/HP |
 |
| J.W. Pepper & Son | Premier } Philadelphia } Highest | Award and Diploma } Worlds Fair | Columbian Exposition | Chicago 1893 | 11465
Pryorphone: This instrument is singular in it’ engraving (embossing).
Looking at other surviving Pepper instruments, the marking of "Premier | Philadelphia | Highest | Award and Diploma | Worlds Fair | Columbian Exposition | Chicago 1893" is consistent with other instruments in that serial number range, yet the "J.W.Pepper & Son" (which is clearly marked) only occurs on instruments after 1910, serial number 53000 and above.
The "Premier" line does not occur above 11500, so the is nothing unusual about that, or the flat spring water key, nor indeed, anything else to indicate that this instrument was made other than in the 19th century.
So why was the "Pepper & Son" imprinted years later?
|
| 3606 |
Cornet |
Jay |
Columbia |
1900 |
|
LP/HP |
 |
| Engraved: Columbia Patented. Harry B.Jay Co.,Chicago
Long Model, came in small and medium bore, length 15in
|
| 1455 |
Cornet |
Jay |
Columbia |
5399 |
|
LP/HP |
 |
| Engraved Columbia Patented Harry B Jay Co Chicago
Case reads Harry B. Jay Co High Grade Band Instruments 342 Jackson Boulevard Chicago
This was a Trumpet-Cornet. By changing the leadpipe it would convert from trumpet to cornet.
Length: 17in
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