Cornet, C
Trade Name
M. Dupont
Distributor
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
(distributor)
Date1908 ca.
Place DistributedChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Place MadeFrance, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: M. DUPONT / PARISMarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing: F / L / Z
Stamped on receiver ferrule: FRANCE
DescriptionIdentical to a Marceau cornet pictured in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog No. 117, where it sold for $6.85. M. Dupont was a trade name of Sears Roebuck for French imports.
Brass; with nickel-plated finish. Three, top-sprung Perinet piston valves. Quick-change pushrod.
DimensionsHeight (without mouthpiece): 290 mm
Bell diameter: 115 mm
Bore: 11.8 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. 79.
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. 219-222.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number02712
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