Antique Musical Instruments/silvertone trombone

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QUESTION: i have a silvertone trombone made in elkhart, ind. with the serial no# 96788 on the slide.  it is in very good condition.  the engraving is beautiful.   can you please tell me the year it was made?   thank you.   ED

ANSWER: Both King and Sears used Silvertone as a tradename. Sounds like yours might be a Sears.

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QUESTION: HI:   can you tell me the approx date this trombone was made by the serial# 97688?  thank you.  ED

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There is no serial number list for Sears.  The serial number is probably one used by the original maker.  For example, and it is possibly accurate for this horn, if it was made by Conn, then the Pan American list would date it at 1934.  Conn did make some Sears instruments under tooling of their Pan American branch.  

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