A vintage Courtois silver-plated B-flat A trumpet, Serial 1150, circa 1904, with A to B-flat rotary valve quick change, elaborately engraved; within a period faux-hide case, est:$500/800
*Price Realized: $735.00

Note: A similar model, from the John Entwistle Collection, sold Sotheby's Olympia, London, 13 May 2003, lot 105 (540 British Pounds Sterling). Provenance: Property from an Altadena, California Estate (not part of the Artie Shaw collection). Condition: With overall darkening and tarnishing to surface. Some engraving obscured. Some cracking to abalone in center button. Later mouth pieces. Likely in original condition. Case with overall wear, particularly at edges. No further information can be provided. We recommend you or your agent view this lot first hand before bidding. This and all lots are sold AS-IS and not subject to return under any circumstance. All sales final.