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Bugle, C, B-flat
Bugle, C, B-flat
Bugle, C, B-flat

Bugle, C, B-flat

Date1861
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelBritish Duty Bugle
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell garland: RUDALL. ROSE. / CARTE & CO / MANUFACTURERS. / 20, CHARING CROSS / LONDON.
MarkingsDedication engraved in italics on bell: Presented / by the / Countess Amherst. / to / The 33rd Company / of the / Kent Rifle Volunteers. / 1861.

Complete series of hallmarks stamped on the bell:
maker’s mark: J·M·R [within rectangle with beveled corners]
lion passant
leopard’s head
date letter: f [1861/62]
sovereign’s head: Queen Victoria

Hallmarks stamped on first bow:
maker’s mark: J·M [·R]
Queen Victoria’s head (incomplete)
lion passant (incomplete)

Hallmarks stamped on ferrule between first and second bow:
lion passant
maker’s mark: J·M·R

Hallmarks stamped on third bow:
maker’s mark: J·M·R
Queen Victoria’s head (? faint)
lion passant

Hallmarks stamped on ferrule between third and fourth bow:
maker’s mark: J·M·R
lion passant

Hallmarks stamped on mouthpiece:
maker’s mark J·M·R
lion passant
leopard’s head
date letter: f
Queen Victoria’s head

Brass shield on lid of case engraved: 33rd K. R. V.
DescriptionSolid silver; double loop; Saxon rim; crook for B-flat; no tuning slide.

The dedication inscription on the bell refers to Gertrude Percy (1814-1890), wife of William Pitt Amherst, 2nd Earl of Amherst of Arracan. Getrude Percy received the title Countess Amherst of Arracan on March 13, 1857.
DimensionsHeight: 243 mm
Tube length: 1165 mm (C), 1290 mm (B-flat)
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.5 mm, 10.7 mm
Bell diameter: 113 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from Tony Bingham, London, England. Previously owned by the 33rd Kent Rifle Volunteers, England.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 217-20, 267.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments, ed. by Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers, and John Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), p. 91.


Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07344
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