Cocuswood cor anglais with german silver keywork, signed "(sunburst) / JACQUES ALBERT / BRUXELLES / (sunburst) made c.1900. Length (without crook) 79.2cm.
In good original condition, pads also quite good condition. In original double case with empty reed box.
Price £1200.00
Instrument #325

Boxwood oboe with ivory bands and twelve brass keys, signed "(bee) / MARTIN / Freres / A PARIS / MF (monogram)" made c.1860. Length 56.3cm.
Damage to ivory mount at top of upper joint, otherwise in good original condition. Needs a repad to be playable.
Price £1600.00
Instrument #312

Boxwood oboe with brass bands and ten brass keys, signed "(sunburst) / B T // BUTHOD & THIBOUVILLE / BREVETE S.G.D.G. / A PARIS" made c.1860. Length 56.5cm.
Needs clean and repad. Repaired crack in upper part of right hand joint. Lacks brass band to bell.
Price £1350.00
Instrument #308

Boehm system cocuswood oboe with maillechort keywork, signed "GM (monogram) / GAUTROT MARQUET / PARIS / BREVETE S.G.D.G. / 637" made c.1875. Length 54.7cm. Narrow bore with medium/large fingerholes.
In very good original condition. In original fitted case, in poor condition.
Price £1200.00
Instrument #310
References
Entry for Gautrot from "The New Langwill Index" 1993 by William Waterhouse.
Illustration and description of Boehm system oboe from Catalogue of "Gautrot Ainé & Cie, Couesnon & Cie Successeur" 1886.

African blackwood German system oboe with german silver keywork, signed "V.KOHLERT SONS / MAKERS / GRASLITZ / CZECHO-SLOVAKIA / (prize medallians) / (5-pointed symbol) / 763" made c.1925. An interesting keywork system with several complex key linkages.
In good original condition. In original, velvet lined, wooden case.
Price £700.00
Instrument #311
References
Entry for V.Kohlert Söhne from "The New Langwill Index" 1993 by William Waterhouse.
Entry for Kohlert Söhne from "Verzeichnis der Holz- und Metallblasinstrumentenmacher auf deutschsprachigem Gebiet von 1500 bis Mitte des 20 Jahrhunderts" 2010 by G.Dullat.

Dark stained maple contra-bassoon with German silver keywork, signed “(crown / HECKEL / BIEBRICH / (crown)” “SYSTEM / STRITTER” made c.1900. Height 163.0cm.

Needs clean and repad.

Price £8000.00
Instrument #263

Silver plated soprano sarrusophone, signed "GA (monogram) in oval / 44 / Gautrot Marquet / brevete s.g.d.g. a Paris" made c.1870. Length (without crook) 62.5cm. In old, probably original, wooden case.
In good original condition. Recently repadded. The brass crook a carefully made modern reconstruction.
Price £4500.00
Instrument #214
References
French Patent No.16212 dated 1856
French Patent No.67433 dated 1867
Both taken out by Gautrot Aine.

Maple bassoon with brass bands and eight brass keys, signed "W.MILHOUSE / LONDON / 3337 / OXFORD / STREET" made c.1810. Length 123.5cm. With old brass crook, probably original.
Very good original condition, showing little sign of use, recently repadded. Small chip of wood off bell and small damage to surface of wood at top of wing joint.
Price £2800.00
Instrument #163

Boxwood oboe with ivory bands, eleven brass keys and half hole plate, signed "(lyre) ISIDORE / Lot (in oval cartouche) / IL (monogram)" made c.1870. Length 56.3cm.
Two short cracks in upper part of right hand joint, centre ivory band not original. Recently repadded and playable.
Price £2150.00
Instrument #98
References
Illustrated (p.179) with biographical details in "Great Flute Makers of France: The Lot & Godfroy Families" by Tula Giannini