Instrument 753 can be no earlier than 1862, the date of Samson's patent for finger-slide valves. The lowest number in the this sequence is not known. Most Rudall Carte brass instruments and some saxophones appear to have been numbered in a single sequence of serial numbers.
The author welcomes comments, corrections and further information, e-mail: a.myersed.ac.uk Wherever possible one of the authors (Arnold Myers or Frank Tomes) has examined the item, but in other cases the information has come from the published catalogues, check-lists and websites of museums or from personal communications. The location is not extant but we copied the details for research purposes from the archives, now in the care of the Horniman Museum, London.one of the authors (Arnold Myers and Frank Tomes) has examined the item.details have been communicated by an owner.mentioned in a publication such as an exhibition or auction catalogue, or listed on eBay.
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Rudall Carte brasswind Journal of surviving Rudall Carte brass instruments, saxophones and sarrusophones, with archival and catalogue data
