Trumpets, cornets and horns
Cornet with three disc valves, the touches for the valve levers numbered “1 2 3” Signed on a plaque “ 78 / BY HER MAJESTY'S / ROYAL LETTERS PATENT / J.SHAW INVENTOR / (Royal Coat of Arms) / KOHLER SOLE MAKER / 35 HENRIETTE STT / COVENT GARDEN LONDON” made c.1840.
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Cornet in brass with silver mounts, three stoelzel valves each with a protective cover, with Macfarlane's clapper-key, signed on the bell garland "Made by / F.PACE / 15 King Street / Westmr" made in London c.1835. In original wooden case with two tuning bits, three crooks and silver rim brass mouthpiece.
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Bb preacher's cornet
by Salvation Army c.1905 Périnet valves |
Bb contralto saxhorn
by Michaud c.1850 3 Berliner Pumpen |
Bb echo cornet
by Hawkes c.1890 4 Périnet valves |
Eb soprano cornet
by J Wallace & Sons Ltd. c.1889 3 Périnet valves |
F / Eb tenor cor
by Hawkes c.1900 3 Périnet valves |
Bb cornet
by Carl Boosé c.1850 3 early Périnet valves |
Eb petit bugle
by Gautrot c.1880 Eb alto bugle by Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy c.1890 |
Post horn
by Boosey & Co. c.1880 Cor de chasse by Pelisson c.1900 |
Eb alto saxhorn
anon. c.1880 3 Périnet valves |
Bb cornopean
by Darché c.1830 with crooks to E 2 Stölzel valves |
Cyclists' bugles by Keat
British military bugle by John Gray & Sons Bass bugle by Couesnon Bass bersag horn by Boosey & Co. c.1900 to 1920 |
English slide trumpet
Wyatt patent c.1890 |
Bb / A trumpet
by William Brown c.1890 |
Bb cornet by Gautrot
rotary valves c.1880 Bb / A cornet by Higham c.1890 generously donated by Bedford Town Band |
C / Bb ballad horn
by Boosey & Co. (trade mark Distin) c.1890 C ballad horn by Rudall Carte & Co. c.1880 |
Eb alto & Bb / C basse
cornophones by F. Besson c.1890 |
L to R:
C flugelhorn anon. c.1890 Eb althorn dealer mark only c.1940 Bb tenor horn by Christian Reisser c.1900 Bb Kaiserbariton by Cerveny with Walzenwentil c.1890 |
top to bottom and right:
Bb flugelhorn with compensating valves by Boosey & Co. c.1910 Bb cornet with compensating valves by Boosey & Co. c.1910 Bb cornet by Besson enharmonic system c.1910 Eb tenor horn with 4 valves by Besson c.1910 |