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Hi,
Grandfather passed, trying to get info on this silver plate? hard cased has numbers 36508 on one piece with a 35 under it and it says "true tone" engraved with a bell and what looks like a tuning fork in a triangle. On another piece it has the number 37549 and the bell part says "Buescher Grand" Elkhart Ind. Any ideas? Have pictures, thanks for your time, kind regards, Lewis

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Lewis,

You didn't say, but I'm assuming that it is a trombone. Oftentimes parts of trombones came through the factory at different times, and some makers didn't try to keep the parts with the same numbers together.  Course the other possibility is that parts of two different horns have been put together to make a complete one.

It dates to about 1917.  

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