I listed the horn as being in fair condition because while it's appearance is poor it really plays very well so I thought the category 'fair' is an honest compromise. It looks to me that the pinky holder and 3rd slide ring were a later addition to the horn as Conn wasn't putting them on their horns until later in the 20's when the Jazz age hit and players had to play one handed while reaching for a mute. As you can see from the last photo all the slides are free. But I recently got to thinking that since it plays so well that I'd offer it for sale to someone who wants to play a nice playing, unique, old Conn that's, well, a bit cosmetically challenged, though it has no dents and just few dings.

Because it had already been re-plated I couldn't send it out a second time as the necessary buffing to prep it would take off too much brass, so not knowing what to do with it I let it sit around the shop for a few months. In fact, it played very well with good compression. However, when I got the horn in and examined it I realized that it had already been re-plated once and rebuilt. I thought that I would rebuild it and then send it out to be silver plated. 470' and with the A/Bb shifter being in a different spot than with any other Conn horn I've seen. I brought this horn in because it's a very unique Conn horn, having a large bore of. By it's serial number it was made in 1921.

This Conn trumpet #188734 is one of them. These are usually large bore horns made by Conn before they started assigning model numbers and the horns don't look enough like any of the horns with model numbers to determine one. There are some Conn trumpets from the teens and early twenties that fall into the 'unknown' category on Conn Loyalist.

Conn trumpet serial numbers 368598