Antique Musical Instruments/Saxaphone

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Expert: - 4/22/2006


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 Hi, I recently aquirred a saxaphone in a black case with purple velvet.
 It has incriptions on it which are, "ELKHART" , under it is "Band Inst. co" under that is the numbers "594-28", under them lower are "ELKHART" under is "Ind." and under that is "USA".  Over them was a chrest with a an ELK.
 I would appeciate any information you may have on this saxaphone and it's worth.

 Thank you.

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Mike,

I thought I already answered this, but it appears that it never made it.  Sorry.

Anyway, Elkhart was its own independent company for only 4 years from 1924-8.  After that it was merged with Buescher.  And Buescher continued to use the name as a tradename for its second line of instruments.

Buescher was renown for the quality of their main line instruments from the 20s through the 50s.

I'm not sure how to interpret that serial number.


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