Antique Musical Instruments/Lyon & Healy Trombone

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Expert: - 11/8/2007


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I have a vintage trombone that I believe is silver plated.  I has Lyon & Healy 20th Century Made in Chicago on the bell and some fancy etching.  It appears to be in the original case.  Could you give me some info on this and is it worth anything? Thanks!

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20th Century model horns by Lyon & Healy, in fact practically all of the Lyon and Healy products are hard to date because there are no records.  But, a clue is the "Made in". That would  seem to indicate that it was domestically made after 1923.  It is possible that it was made by L&H, because they may some of their products, but they bought many more and simply put their name on them.

Unfortunately, it is it not going to be worth very much.  

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