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Since nearly all manufacturers ceased production of C-Melodies by the early 30's, your horn likely dates to the late teens or early 1920s Conn maintained separate records for their Stencil horns, and those were lost in a fire many decades ago.

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The rest of the serial number cannot be used to date the year the horn was made as one can for Conn's self branded horns.Worth having at least one model, but since they are neither rare, or have keywork up to the later New Wonder I and II models, I wouldn't pay. There are thousands of these floating about with a wide variety of names stenciled on them.

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No front F or pearl keys on that horn, and it is definitely a Wonder series Conn stencil.If you are interested in comparing the patents, the Conn patent was: Dec. These patent numbers are usually stamped just above the serial number. The patent numbers on Conn and Pan American saxophones is different.Conn-O-Sax The Conn-O-Sax is a straight F-mezzo and very rare. The store from which I am enting the sax is charging roughly $1200 for it. Is there a way to know for certain? Also i would be interested to know the value of the sax. I am not sure which it is, but they said most likely a King. The sax is not a Holton because Holton was not producing woodwinds in 1911 but was more likely a Conn or King stencil. Manufacturers, models - stencils and serial number Or you want to play a horn with a number that is close to your idol's saxophone. It is sometimes (possible erroneously) supposed that five digit MKVIs are the best.

Serial numbers can be used to identify supposedly better instruments. So saxophones may not be numbered sequentially. Again you may discover that the vendor has simply called a Martin stencil a Conn. There may be missing features, but the proportions and 95% of the mechanics of the horn will be the same. If the horn in question is supposed to be a stencil of one of those, Google until you find sites with good examples and a lot of photos, and compare those to the sax in question. US Stencils: The most common versions of most Conn, Martin, and Buescher vintage saxophones are well represented on the Intenet. Here is an early Malerne stencil called Airflow with serial number 2011. Speaking of serial numbers most stencils did not follow the parent companies serial number range so it. Tone hole construction, G# key cluster design, key guard design, key layout, octave mechanism type, serial number markings and more. There are many ways to tell if a saxophone was produced by a certain company. Some of these companies were purchased in time and became stencils themselves.

The major saxophone companies that made stencils were Conn, Buescher, Martin.

It was not at all uncommon for a company to source horns from. There are plenty more out there that do not appear on this list because I am unsure of their origin. There is almost no information available on Asian made stencils. These horns are NOT the same as the manufacturer's house brand and do NOT follow the same serial number sequence.

The identity of the true maker is often impossible to trace, but here are a few of the most commonly seen stencils and their true identity.

Vintage bronze lacquer, Conn's own stencil, great sax ! Curved (tenor style) neck: Perfection / Bruno : also seen as Perfakten / Perfacktone, on other saxes as well: Selmer American - New York: Conn stencil, has 'mercedes' low C guard : Silva-Lae / Naujoks McLaughlin - who also made a great 'silver-lay' C.

Manufacturers, models - stencils and serial numbers ' Martin Handcraft ' 1931.

Characaristics: nailefile G# cluster, rolled tone holes and most of the time microtuner necks on the altos The Chu Berry horns where the New Wonder Series II ca.

Re: Conn Stencil - What year, model? Nope, no Chu Berry.

According to a Conn s/n chart, 52,000 was made in 1919) and appears to be at least 200,000 off for LH bell key horns

Stencil serial numbers starting with a P APPEAR to be +50,000 off on the Conn serial number chart for split bell key horns (i.e.

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