Antique Musical Instruments/1910 low pitch sax.

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I have bought a house and in the attic i found an old sax. On this sax. it says(licensed pat pend 1910) Lyon(o)Wenly American professional chicago the #'s are 92058 on it. I would like to know some more about it and possibly how much if anything it is worth?  thankyou

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The dealer is Lyon & Healy, and the model is American Professional.  And, the serial doesn't have much meaning beyond comparing with other American Professional saxes,as there are no serial number lists for L&H and it appears that they may have run different lists for different models.  The Patent date only means that the horn is no older than that, but it might be considerably newer.

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