Swannee-Sax Model A in plated brass, signed "PATENT No 277221/27 / FOREIGN PATENTS APPLIED FOR" on the body and "SWANNEE-SAX / REGISTERED / AND AT / US PATENT OFF" on the bell, made in England c.1930. Height 47.0cm. Compass F to F. With old (damaged) mouthpiece. With original sling.
In good condition, plating worn on bell.
Price £2000.00
Instrument #323
References
English Patent No.277221 taken out in 1927 by S.B.Barnes / "A Few Hints on the Use and Care of the Swannee-Sax" c.1930 / The "SWANEE" SAX (Reg.) (Being a Slide Saxophone) and how to play it The Newest Popular Musical Instrument Fully Explained. How to Produce Ordinary Saxophone Effects and many New Ones.

Silver plated double tube metal Boehm system Bb clarinet, signed "(American eagle) / PENZEL MUELLER & CO / L.I. CITY / NEW YORK / CLARI-MET / MADE IN U.S.A." made c.1930. Length 67.0cm.
Plating worn in several places on body.
Price £900.00
Instrument #315
References
Photos and description from catalogue of "Penzel-Mueller & Co, manufacturers of High Grade Woodwind Instruments since 1882, Creators of Clari-Met"

Boxwood Bb clarinet with ivory bands and six brass keys, signed "O O / CRAMER / LONDON / (unicorn head)" made c.1800. Length 67.0cm.
Good playing condition. Repaired crack in upper joint with replaced tenon, repaired crack in bell, lower ivory ring not original.
Price £2600.00
Instrument #317

Boxwood C clarinet with five brass keys, signed "(sun) / WINNEN / A PARIS" made c.1810. Length 60.5cm. Original mouthpiece branded with same "sun" as body.
In very good original condition, recently repadded.
Price £2200.00
Instrument #320

Boxwood C clarinet with six brass keys, signed "(unicorn head) / WOLF & FIGG / 20 / ST MARTINS LE GRAND / LONDON / 9crown) / C" made c.1846. Length 58.0cm.
Repaired crack in mouthpiece, generally in very good original condition, recently repadded.
Price £900.00
Instrument #321

Swannee-Sax Model B in plated brass, signed "PATENT No 277221/27 / FOREIGN PATENTS APPLIED FOR" made in England c.1930. Height 31.3cm. Compass Bb to F. With original mouthpiece.
In good condition, with one small dent in body, plating worn on front.
Price £1700.00
Instrument #322
References
English Patent No.277221 taken out in 1927 by S.B.Barnes /

"A Few Hints on the Use and Care of the Swannee-Sax" c.1930 /

The "SWANEE" SAX (Reg.) (Being a Slide Saxophone) and how to play it The Newest Popular Musical Instrument Fully Explained. How to Produce Ordinary Saxophone Effects and many New Ones.

Silver plated brass Bb clarinet with thirteen keys and brille, signed "G.Butler / Manufacturer / 57 Greek St. Soho / London" made c.1865. Length 64.5cm. Tuning slide on barrel. Old ebonite mouthpiece.
In good original condition, to be playable needs a repad and a couple of springs. Probably made in France. Plating worn on bell and a little on keys.
Price £750.00
Instrument #302

Silver plated Bb clarinet with thirteen keys and brille, signed "14436 // XX / CENTURY / HAWKES & SON / MAKERS / DENMAN STREET / PICCADILLY CIRCUS / LONDON W." made c.1902. Length 67.5cm. With ebonite "Ben Davis / Vocaltone" eight sided mouthpiece.
In good original condition. Pads old but appear ok.
Price £450.00
Instrument #303

Boxwood F clarinet with horn bands and six brass keys, signed "(double headed eagle) / ANT. SCHEILY / IN PEST / F" made c.1820. Length 42.5cm. The G#/C# key may be added a little later.
In good original condition, small damage to two horn bands.
Price £1200.00
Instrument #304

African blackwood octavin with german silver mounts and keywork, signed "ADLER & CO / MARKNEUKIRCHEN" made c.1900. Length 45.3cm. In original fitted hard case.
In good original condition, needs repad to be playable.
Price £2850.00
Instrument #239
References
German Patent No.83005 dated 27 September 1893, taken out by Oscar Adler and Herm Jordan.
Photograph and details from "Fast vergessene Blasinstrumente aus zwei Jahrhunderten" 1992 by G.Dullat.

Ebonite Albert system Eb clarinet with 13 German silver keys, signed "BOOSEY & CO / MAKERS / LONDON / 12996" made c.1897. Overall length 48.0cm. The barrel and ebonite mouthpiece signed "BOOSEY & CO / 12996" and are therefore original to the body.
In good original condition. The pads appear to be quite good, it should work with some adjustments. A very unusual and elegant model with the body and bell in one piece.
Price £325.00
Instrument #222

Boxwood C clarinet with horn bands and six brass keys, the C#/G# key mounted with pillars on an oval plate, signed "(star) / LOT / A PARIS / (star)" made c.1820. Length 60.3cm.
Recently overhauled and now playable. Repaired crack in one horn band. Repair to one wooden mount. Mouthpiece an accurate modern reconstruction. It is not possible to say which member of the Lot family made this clarinet.
Price £2200.00
Instrument #211

Boxwood C clarinet with ivory bands and fourteen german silver keys, signed "C / (eight petalled flower) / G.HANNECKE / ROTTERDAM / (eight petalled flower)" made c.1835. length 56.2cm.
In good original condition, two repaired cracks in one ivory ring. needs repad to be playable.
Price £1600.00
Instrument #212

Ebony Bb Boehm system clarinet with brass mounts and keywork, signed "(lyre) / BUFFET / Crampon (?& Cie) / A PARIS" made c.1860. Length 65.3cm.
Recently overhauled and now playable. Two repaired cracks in the socket of the RH joint reinforced by a brass band, below the original band. Repairs to bell. An example of an early Boehm system clarinet with large fingerholes and delicate rings.
Price £2000.00
Instrument #213

Baritone saxophone in brass with brass keywork, signed "EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE PARIS / 1900 / HORS CONCOURS / MEMBRE DE JURY / COUESNON & CIE / FOURNISEUR DE L'ARMEE / 94 RUE D'ANGOULEME / PARIS / (grenade enclosing) 15" made in 1915. Height 100.5cm. Bell diameter 18.8cm.
In need of a complete overhaul, some dents but metal sound.
Price £425.00
Instrument #187
References
"CATALOGUE POCHETTE / COUESNON & CIE / 94 Rue d'Angouleme PARIS" c.1920. pp82 &83 which describes and illustrates a similar saxophone.

Bb Boehm system clarinet (with mechanism for producing pure break Bb)in African Blackwood with german silver keywork, signed "(sunburst) / JACQUES ALBERT / FILS / BRUXELLES / (sunburst) / BREVETE" made c.1925. Length 57.0cm. No mouthpiece.
In very good original condition, recently repadded.
Price £750.00
Instrument #117

A Clarinet in cocuswood with thirteen German silver keys and brille with Patent C#, signed on the mouthpiece "E.ALBERT / S.A.CHAPPELL" signed on the upper joint "(star) / A.CHAPPELL / 45 / NEW BOND STREET / LONDON / (star)" signed on the lower joint "(star) / E.ALBERT / BRUXELLES / (star)" signed on the bell "(star) / APPROVED BY / MR LAZARUS / (star)" signed on C# key "CHAPPELL / BREVETE" made c.1870. Length 69.0cm. This is an early example of the Albert system clarinet.
Mouthpiece chipped, two short cracks in top of lower joint, crack in bell. Thumbrest changed. Needs complete overhaul, it does have interesting old (perhaps original) black leather pads.
Price £450.00
Instrument #106
References
Portrait and biography of Lazarus from "Clarinet Virtuosi of the past" by P.Weston.
English Patent No.1308 taken out in 1862 by J.Tyler, for the Patent C# key.

A clarinet in boxwood with horn bands and eight brass keys, signed "(Prussian Eagle?) / KOEHLER / A" made in Germany c.1810. Length 67.3cm.
Crack in barrel. Needs clean and repad. The lowest joint is stamped with a "B" under the name, this was originally a clarinet with extra left and right hand joints enabling it to be played in Bb and A.
Price £1500.00
Instrument #55