Miniature bugle, g
Date1900 ca.
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Place MadeEngland, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionCopper, double loop with integral mouthpiece.
Bugle in miniature form, modeled after an English regimental bugle. Probably for educational purposes (early military education of boys) representing a toy instrument, or a collector’s item with purely ornamental value. Toy instruments of this kind were produced, for example, by the Deutsche Signal-Instrumentenfabrik Max B. Martin in Markneukirchen, Saxony.
DimensionsHeight: 181 mm
Tube length: 758 mm
Bell diameter: 70 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1991 from Tony Bingham, London, 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. 222, 268.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07045
On View
Not on view
1990 ca.
1900
1945-1950 ca.
