SOLD 1935 Conn 10M Factory Relacquer SOLD $2500.00
The person that buys this horn will have a very good day. This pristine 1935 Conn 10M is an extremely well done relacquer. The relacquer is so clean the best way to tell is by looking closely at specific areas of the engraving: inside the zigzag cuts of the columns. (There are lots of extreme close ups of the columns in the photos.) You can see there is lacquer in those cuts. I've seen other original lacquer 10M's from this era and some of them share the appearance of this engraving, minus the lacquer in the cuts of course. Meaning, they don't have that rough under the finger cut to the engraving that is so desirable, but they are original nonetheless.
If you look at the close ups of the guard feet flanges, post flanges, around the thumbrest, and other areas highly susceptible to being buffed-out during a relacquer, you can see just how clearly defined those edges are. Meaning, the relacquer was done with extreme care.
In fact, there remains some doubt as to whether this is in fact a relacquer, if you have to look this closely does it really matter? Not if what you want to do is play the horn, but if you want to sell it, then you have a professional responsibility to be thoroughly transparent about what you're selling, as I am here.
In short, this is being sold as a re-lacquered 10M, but you have to point to the evidence - best done with a good zoom - and say, "See? Right there. That's how you can tell."
This horn is being sold on consignment by the son of the original owner.
It is being sold As-Is. I have not done any work to this horn, I did not do the 6-year old repad. It will need work, the cost and extent of said work will depend on how picky the chosen tech is.
It received a Re-pad in another shop about 6 years ago. No key fitting was done. All adjustment materials are cork, and it has what looks like Prestini pads and plastic resonators.
This is a steal. For real. Just look at the pictures. No pull-down, extremely limited bow dents, pristine pearls, it's got that gorgeous dark green lacquer, and it's 1935. What else is there to say?
I wanted this horn for myself, but it's not in the budget, otherwise no one would have ever seen this For Sale page because it'd be mine.
The person that buys this horn will have a very good day. This pristine 1935 Conn 10M is an extremely well done relacquer. The relacquer is so clean the best way to tell is by looking closely at specific areas of the engraving: inside the zigzag cuts of the columns. (There are lots of extreme close ups of the columns in the photos.) You can see there is lacquer in those cuts. I've seen other original lacquer 10M's from this era and some of them share the appearance of this engraving, minus the lacquer in the cuts of course. Meaning, they don't have that rough under the finger cut to the engraving that is so desirable, but they are original nonetheless.
If you look at the close ups of the guard feet flanges, post flanges, around the thumbrest, and other areas highly susceptible to being buffed-out during a relacquer, you can see just how clearly defined those edges are. Meaning, the relacquer was done with extreme care.
In fact, there remains some doubt as to whether this is in fact a relacquer, if you have to look this closely does it really matter? Not if what you want to do is play the horn, but if you want to sell it, then you have a professional responsibility to be thoroughly transparent about what you're selling, as I am here.
In short, this is being sold as a re-lacquered 10M, but you have to point to the evidence - best done with a good zoom - and say, "See? Right there. That's how you can tell."
This horn is being sold on consignment by the son of the original owner.
It is being sold As-Is. I have not done any work to this horn, I did not do the 6-year old repad. It will need work, the cost and extent of said work will depend on how picky the chosen tech is.
It received a Re-pad in another shop about 6 years ago. No key fitting was done. All adjustment materials are cork, and it has what looks like Prestini pads and plastic resonators.
This is a steal. For real. Just look at the pictures. No pull-down, extremely limited bow dents, pristine pearls, it's got that gorgeous dark green lacquer, and it's 1935. What else is there to say?
I wanted this horn for myself, but it's not in the budget, otherwise no one would have ever seen this For Sale page because it'd be mine.