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Engraving on saxaphone is Lyon Hecker or Heclr,
American Professional, Chicago, serial # 65714. Patent date is December 1914. It is in a Buesher case. Is this a Buescher horn?
Hi Gary,
Probably not. What you have is a Lyon and Healy, trade name American Professional. Around the turn of the century they were the major importer of instruments into the US. They made a few of their own, and they stenciled some US made horns.
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Kenton Scott
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