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I have a silver cornet with 3 extra valve slides and a lyre. The valve numbers are 16, 17, 18 and the only writing on it is Austria on the middle valve. On the bell there is a nice print on it also.
The 16,17,18 are just to keep track of which piston was custom fit to which casing.
Extra slides probably mean that it was intended to play at more than one pitch, possibly different keys, or high and low pitch. It is probably one that was made in the first part of the 20th century.
Austria would be the country in which it was made.
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