Cornet, E-flat

Date1873-1878 ca.

Place MadeParis, France, Europe

Serial No.10074 (valve cap), 5525 (bell)

SignedStamped on bell: MÉDAILLE / DE / 1RE CLASSE / EXPOSITION / UNIVERSELLE / 1855 [within circle] / Médaille / LONDRES 1862 / Exposition Universelle / Paris 1867 / Médaille d’Honneur / EN ARGENT / MAISON ANTOINE COURTOIS & MILLE / Breveté / FACTEUR DU CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL / 88 Rue Des Marais St. Martin / Paris / 1ER PRIX / GRANDE MÉDAILLE D’OR / EXPOSITION DE MOSCOU / 1872 / S. ARTHUR CHAPPELL / Sole Agent / 52 New Bend Street / London

Engraved on bell: J. HOWARD FOOTE / AGENT FOR THE U.S. / NEW YORK & CHICAGO / 5525
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, left side: 3 2 1
Stamped under third valve cap: 10074
DescriptionBrass body; single loop; telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe with wing-screw adjustment

Three bottom sprung Périnet valves with nickel-plated touchpieces
Single water key at first bow
DimensionsHeight (with telescopic tuning slide): 335 mm
Bell diameter: 117 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 4: The Heydey of the Cornet (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2022), p. 177.

David Wayne Knutson, A Catalogue of the European Cornets and Trumpets at the Shrine to Music Museum, D.M.A. Thesis, University of Illinois, 1992, pp. 189-192.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number00600

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