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!colspan="5"|There are quite some octagonal Arigra's around. [http://mitglied.multimania.de/grosch/ Sven Grosch] states there were some 2500 made, I don't know where that figure originates but it could be true. Some 62 are listed below.
 
!colspan="5"|There are quite some octagonal Arigra's around. [http://mitglied.multimania.de/grosch/ Sven Grosch] states there were some 2500 made, I don't know where that figure originates but it could be true. Some 62 are listed below.
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Revision as of 20:09, 31 May 2019

From the forties till the seventies octagonal trumpets were made by GDR makers from Markneukirchen operating in the Sinfonia and Migma groups, like Kurt Knoth, A.K. Wunderlich and Johannes Scherzer. "This peculiar shape of brass instruments was interesting to show orchestra's. That was going on already in the 1940s", says museum direktor Heidrun Eichler from Markneukirchen.

The Exakta and other octagonal bell trumpets from Markneukirchen

Brass instrument maker Mario Weller from Markneukirchen, who researches the history of 20th century brass instrument making in Vogtland, told me in March 2013: „Most of the brass instrument makers in the Vogtland made their octagonal bells out of standard bells, on their own rods. That's known for the workshops of Johannes Scherzer, A.K.Wunderlich and for the 12-sided version that came from the workshop of Erhard Sawatzki. The basic bells for all three workshops came from bell maker Heinz Nürnberger, formerly Firma Ernst Dölling, Markneukirchen. Heinz Nürnberger is known to have had his own 8 sided rod, that he lent to another Sinfonia member (Otto Meinel) when needed. Also known is that around 1950 instrument and bell maker August Reichel jun. made octagonal bells and sold them to Vogtlandian instrument makers.

Wunderlich's Exakta

The Exakta logo was used already by Alfred, so before 1938
Wunderlich Exakta luxury version with goldlacquer on valve caps and bottoms and inside bell, coll.: Gerard Westerhof

The company A. K. Wunderlich in Markneukirchen was known for their 'Exakta' trumpets, but also build french horns and trombones. It was founded in 1907 by Alfred Wunderlich(26.05.1883 - 01.01.1969). His father and brother were both active as brass instrument makers. Alfred joined with this brother under the name „Gebr. Wunderlich“. Around 1938 his son Kurt Wunderlich (16.05.1908 - 10.05.1994) became his partner, hence the name A. K. Wunderlich ('A' for Alfred, 'K' for Kurt). In the shop at Mosenstraße 10 they had up to 6 people working. Many apprentices were trained, some of whom continued their craftsmanship in a workshop of their own.The company was dissolved in 1990.

Most of their octagonal trumpets were build from 1945 till ca. 1970/75, After that interest strongly declined. Here's an Exakta, A.K. Wunderlich, with the caracteristic triangular spin that also is found on Sinfonia instruments, and gold lacquered valve caps and bottoms. The inside of the bell is also gold lacquered.


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Catalog "Alles für den Musikfreund', GHG Möbel- und Kulturwaren Bezirk, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Klingenthal

This Wunderlich Exakta is listed in a 1961 catalog from the Grosshandelskontor für Möbel-und Kulturwaren from 1961. It comes in three versions, with only the bell octagonal, bell and valve block octagonal and a fully octagonal one (except tubes). In a 1962 pricelist it's offered for (DDR) DM 275, DM 365 and DM 400 for the luxury version. Here's another Exakta, with an octagonal bell rim.

  • A.K. Wunderlich Markneukirchen Migma, (mouthpiece: WERMA Compakt 18)

  • octagonal bell rim

A double-braced Exakta

A.K.Wunderlich ca. 1960, double brace, coll. Trompetenmuseum Bad Säckingen

Wunderlich made these octagonal bell trumpets with hexagonal shaped valve casings but also with round valve casings. Hammered tubes are found on a lot of these trumpets, others are engraved.

  • Wunderlich Exakta Andrej Mandl 1.jpg
  • Exakta ronde ventielhuizen.jpg

He also made trumpets with hexagonal valve casings and a round bell. Here's an Exakta with the name Weltton on the bell. The Weltton ('world sound') brand was used between ca. 1953 and 1977.

  • Exakta Weltton, source Göran Christensen SV

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The bell engravings also vary to quite some extent. AK Wunderlich and Markneukirchen and/or Migma are common. There's also an 'Originel Wunderlich'.

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  • 2AK Wunderlich Exakta Migma1.jpg
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Wunderlich also made Exakta octagonal trombones with double braces.

  • Source: Horn-U-copia

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  • Source: Ebay.de 2017

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Migma & Sinfonia

Musical instrument makers around Markneukirchen were organised in cooperatives, for the purchase of materials and selling of products. Wunderlich was member of Migma, an acronym for "Musikinstrumenten Genossenschaft Markneukirchen", a cooperative with at a time several hundred musical instrument makers, established in 1943 and still existing. Other workshops were organised in Sinfonia, a production cooperative (PGH, Produktions Geselschaft) that existed as of 1960. In the seventies, wenn it became clear that with export of hand made instruments foreign currency could be acquired, the PGH Sinfonia was transferred into a 'Volkseigene Betrieb' (VEB Sinfonia), a state organisation. In 1984 the VEB SINFONIA became VEB Blechblas- und Signalinstrumentenfabrik Markneukirchen. In 1990 VEB B & S became the Vogtländische Musikinstrumentenfabrik GmbH (VMI).

Members of PGH Sinfonia were amongst others Johannes Scherzer, who in 1961 took over the workshop of his uncle Kurt Knoth (both using the tradename 'Rino'), Karl Mönnich, Albert Wolfram, Otto Meinel, Walter Mönnig, Erhard Sawatzki as well as the Philipp Reichel workshop with his 'subdivisions' Armin Glier and Klaus Wolfram.

The workshop of Kurth Knoth and his successor (and nephew) Johannes Scherzer made several hundreds of octagonal trumpets, according to Mario Weller. Kurth Knoth took over the Rino workshop from his father Emil in 1935, and moved it to the Mosenstraße 13 in Markneukirchen. In 1961 Kurt Knoth who was a member of Migma, joined the PGH Sinfonia. As of 1961 Johannes Scherzer was in charge of the workshop. The Scherzer workshop then in 1984 became part of the VEB Blechblas- und Signalinstrumentenfabrik.

Here's an octagonal trumpet engraved Kurt Knoth Instr.Baumeister with trademark Rino and sold through Migma, with hammered tubing and gold wash bell. Dated 1940 -1950 by the 2014 Ebay seller, but as it's engraved Migma it can't be before 1943.

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A Rino octagonal trumpet with Sinfonia on the spin and Rino on the bell and pinky hook. As it's marked Sinfonia it must be later than 1960

  • Kurth Knoth Rino Sinfonia, valves numbered 37, 38 (2), 39 source Ebay.com 2015.

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  • Johannes Scherzer, Sinfonia, 1979 silver plated & gold lacquered, coll Heikki Moisio Finland

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Here's another trumpet marked Scherzer, with octagonal valve casing, bottoms and caps, similar to those of the Kurth Knoth above. This one however has a hexagonal bell and hexagonal ferrules. It was offered on Ebay from 2014 till 2015 by instrument maker Simon Freyer in Friedrichsdorf, who believes it's a one off. The serial number is 4956, the valves are marked 37,38,39.

  • hexagonal trumpet, source Ebay 2014

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  • Scherzer

As a side step, a no name trumpet that presumably also has it's origins in Markneukirchen. Some octagonal tubes, hammered bell, valves and other details hexagonal. On the bell: Musik Kapelle 'KVB' No 2. The seller suggests that it may have been playd in the orchestra of the Kölner Verkehrs Betriebe (the transport company of Cologne) .

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Alberto, Albert Wolfram Markneukirchen

Albert Wolfram (+2007) who started his workshop in 1957 used the tradename Alberto. His son Gerhard Wolfram is the last known instrument maker in Markneukirchen still building octagonal trumpets.

  • Meister Albert Wolfram, Sinfonia, marked Alberto

  • A.Wolfram valve block marked V 1617

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The octagonal trumpets of Albert Wolfram appear regularly at sites like Ebay.

Super

An octagonal trumpet with a valve block similar to the above Wolfram appeared on Ebay in 2016. It has the name Super on it, a number (624?) on the valve block and no Sinfonia spin.

  • Super, source Ebay.de 2016

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Horst Voigt, Markneukirchen

An octagonal cornet was signed by Horst Voigt, Markneukirchen. Horst Voigt (1920 - 1994) was educated at A.K. Wunderlich and opened his own workshop in 1951. In 1953 his many years younger brother Helmut joined him.

  • Horst Voigt cornet Markneukirchen

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Another octagonal cornet that has octagonal valve caps and valve casings. No makers name, presumably older than the Horst Voigt cornet and definitely no Arigra as is suggested in it's ebay ad

octagonal cornet,source g.mu6 ebay.com

Joseph Pscherer

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catalog issued by GHG Karl-Markx-Stadt, 1961, source: Ebay 2016

Meister Joseph Pscherer was born in 1909 in Eibenberg (7km from Graslitz, now Czech). According to Mario Weller, he got his education in Graslitz and worked from 1953 till 1978/1980 in Klingenthal, 7 km from Graslitz on the German side of the border. He passed away around 1996. Pscherer always worked alone and had his instruments sold through the Migma collective, and incidentally also through PGH Sinfonia, as Weller states. This instrument has no reference to either Migma or Sinfonia.

Other workshops made octagonal trumpets under the Sinfonia name, some are only marked Sinfonia, without a maker. A 1961 GDR catalog shows an octagonal trumpet, in luxury version. It has gold lacquer in the bell and on the bows. The catalog ("Alles für den Musikkfreund") was issued by the Grosshandelskontor (GHB) für Kulturwaren in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz). The GHB was a new wholesale organisation in the socialist GDR that existed as of 1960.

Erhard Sawatzki's dodecagonal trumpets

Erhard Sawatzki (03.08.1924) was educated at the A.K. Wunderlich shop from 1939 till 1942 and worked there till April 1963. He worked as in independent instrument maker from 1963 till 1990, being a member of Sinfonia, where his workshop had the number 4, as a prefix to their serial number. He made trombones, trumpets, flugelhorns, cornets, tenor and french horns in different models, some 2000 instruments all together. His specialty were dodecagonal trumpets, with bell, valve caps and tubes 12-sided.

Erhard Sawatzki, Sinfonia, 'Made in GDR', after 1963, before 1985 serial number 4 260, valve block marked X5230 coll. Gerard Westerhof.
Erhard Sawatzki SAMA Sinfonia after 1963, coll.Gerard Westerhof

  • Sawatzki sr.nr 4 1372, R17 on the valve block, coll. Silvio Notarbartolo

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  • Sawatzki sr.nr. 4 1413 with a different main slide brace source Ebay.de 2016

Here's a Sawatzki dodecagonal trombone, offered on Ebay in 2019. It's marked SAMA and Sinfonia and has number 4 162, so one of his earlier instruments.

Sawatzki trombone, sr.nr 4 162, source: for sale on Ebay.de in 2019 by dukakis1967
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Sawatzki, like Wunderlich, also made octagonal trombones.

  • SAMA Sinfonia trombone, end 60's beginnng 70's, gold lacquer inside bell

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Vega

Vega, an American maker of musical instruments from Boston, made a octagonal trumpet as well. Model Hi-voice, serial number 40143, refurbished in 2012 dates probably from around 1950. Vega started in brass production with the aqcuisition Standard Band Instrument Company of Boston in 1909. The Vega trumpets and cornets were popular with jazz artists as well as the later big bands and solo artists such as Miles Davis; they enjoyed a comfortable niche in the professional market. However, producing handcrafted professional horns without keeping an eye to the increasing demand for student instruments, the company dropped their horn production to concentrate on their stringed instrument sales. In 1970 Vega was bought by C.F. Martin.

  • Vega Hi-Voice, sr.nr. 40143 coll. Robert Adams, Atlanta US

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Vickers

Vickers Octagon

On Horn-u-copia.net there's a Vickers Octagon, with serial number 2025. The seller dated it between 1925 and 1935. The origin is unclear. One possibility is that it was imported by J.J. Vickers and Sons, who early into the 20th century had become the principal importer of musical instruments in the UK, offering everything except pianos. But that's just a wild guess.

Couesnon Paramount

A Couesnon Bb/C trumpet with hexagonal valve slide knobs, valve bottoms and 5 ridges on the valve casings and a art-deco'ish geometrical design on the bell. The valve casings remind of Bohland & Fuchs.

Couesnon Paramount, serial number 5225, valve caps marked 34, 35, 36 source: Ebay.fr 2014
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Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy, Paris

Also from France is this Bb and C trumpet from Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy, with dodecagonal valve casings and a lot of hexagonal details. It's named Hot Jazz Queen. The company is located at 58bis Rue Reamur, which could date the trumpet at 1932 or later.

  • Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy, Hot Jazz Queen, valves numbered 10,11,12, source ebay.fr

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A similar trumpet is engraved Nicholson's Special Jazz and was sold in 2017 through ebay.fr.

  • Nicholson's Special Jazz, valves numbered 7,8,9, source ebay.fr

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Besson London

  • Besson International sr. nr 128961

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A Besson trumpet with fluted casings and hexagonal valve caps. Not a very clear picture but art deco engravings on the rimless bell.

Atlantic Special

A trumpet with ten sided valve casings, caps an bottoms and other hexagonal details is named Atlantic Special with on the bell the inscription Weihnachten (Christmas) 1937 and a removed inscription that the seller supposes was a nazi reference.

Atlantic Special Weihnachten 1937 source Ebay.de 2017
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No names

Then there are the unidentified octagonal trumpets. The first one, owned by Dieter Grosche, has similarities to the Markneukirchen trumpets.

anonymous octagonal trumpet, coll. Dieter Grosche, Dusseldorf

Another no name trumpet, richly decorated. Valve caps hinting on Markneukirchen, as does the mouthpiece that goes with it (not necessarily original).

  • anonymous trumpet, mouthpiece marked SONDER A M Sch KLASSE, source Ebay.de 2016

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The University of Edinburgh suspects it's octagonal trumpet to be 'possibly German, ca 1950'.

anonymous, coll. Edinburgh University

An octagonal bell trumpet with hexagonal valve block/caps/bottoms

  • anonymous, offered for sale on Marktplaats.nl 2017

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And an octagonal trumpet that's owned by Richard Jereb, Vienna. The octagonal form has been consequently continued in different parts, like the caps of the water-keys (made of copper, not brass), junction rods, all pipe junctions. Also the finger ring and the handles of the slides are octagonal. No makers name or whatsoever, only an 1 on the middle valve casing. A stylized violin key on the tuning slide. Valve casings resemble Kühnl & Hoyer although the owner doesn't believe it could be West-Germany. The combination of brass and nickel silver means it's not older than 1970, according to Mario Weller, who's also convinced it's not Markneukirchen made.

  • anonymous, coll. Richard Jereb, Vienna

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Steenhuysen, Brussels

A hexagonal bell and hexagonal valve casings and caps are distinct features of a trumpet that's branded Swing. Swing is believed to be a trade name of Steenhuysen, a brass manufacturing company in Brussels. Pierre Steenhuysen worked for Mahillon before he started his own workshop in 1926. His grandson bought Mahillon in 1970. The bell isn't hexagonal till the end, there's a saxophone player engraved on the bell. Steenhuysen made a Wonder model trumpet, and used similar hexagonal valve caps and bottoms and a rimless bell on other models/instruments, like the Swing Special.

  • Swing, serial nr. 11408, coll. Peter Ros

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Wonder Super

Source: Ebay 2014

A trumpet marked Wonder Super, round (rimless) bell with hexagonal valve casings, ferrules, valve caps and bottoms. Most probably from Belgium; Horn-u-copia lists a Wonder Super trombone engraved 'Fabrication Artistique'. Collector Peter Willemsen believes that Wonder Super aalso was a tradename of Steenhuysen.

  • An identical Wonder Super, offered for sale from Japan in 2017

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Almost the same trumpet was sold under the name J van Dorpe, Courtrai (Kortrijk) also in Belgium. The main difference is the spin. It's engraved Model Wonder Professional.

  • Source: 2ehands.be

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De Prins Super

The hexagonal valve casings are also found on trumpets from Belgian maker De Prins from Antwerp. The De Prins Super trumpet features these hexagonal valve casings. De Prins and later Gebr. De Prins (brothers De Prins) were located in Antwerp, as of 1901. The brothers took over after WWI. Gebr. De Prins had a complete Super line of instruments. The company existed until 1980.

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De Prins Super, gebreveteerd sr.nr. 17861, Antwerpen België source: Peter Willemsen

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De Prins Gebrs Grote Prijs, Gouden Medaille Antwerpen België Super model 1950 gebreveteerd sr.nr. 13357 source: Ebay.de 2014</small<

Other trumpets with hexagonal valve casings

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Overview of Arigra's around

There are quite some octagonal Arigra's around. Sven Grosch states there were some 2500 made, I don't know where that figure originates but it could be true. Some 62 are listed below.
nr. on valve block remarks picture picture source
1A Coll. Markus Wieghaus, Oldenburg Germany
.1 from coll. Eric Totman US
2A ebay sale from Germany 2013
3 for sale by Zetka, Prague, CR in 2011
3? B on receiver ebay sale by riomar6 Bulgaria
4 ebay sale by karolamoldzavodny, Oslo, Jan 2015
8A coll. Jerome Davies UK
12A coll. Jerome Davies UK
13 13 on the first valve casing (that's further smooth) aukro sale april 2014
13 13 on middle valve casing and under valve cap, 9 K on mouthpiece reciever for sale Ebay.com by Hyges, Dec 2014
14A on the middle valve
19? 'ca 1937' silver and gold plated coll Heikki Moisio, Turku Sweden
23? B on receiver ebay sale by g.mu6 Germany in 2011
24A octagonal valve block, round bell martmart1
27? for sale from Czech Republik
34 for sale Ebay by g.mu6 Aug 2017
34A for sale on Marktplaats.nl jan 2018
35 ebay sale by erbgemma 2013
36 36 on the first valve and middle valve casing coll. Bob Woodruff
36 36 on the middle valve casing and on valves coll. Jos Weeland
37? for sale on Ebay.com by jropeman10 nov 2014
38 coll. Gerard Westerhof Netherlands
38 for sale ebay.de 2018
45 ebay sale from Norway by kyndovaz dec 2013
45 coll Dieter Grosche, Dusseldorf, Germany
46A for sale ebay.de by allerleivonmir2016 jan 2018
47 47 on the middle valve casing ebay sale from musicshop72 in Brno June 2017
50 coll Dieter Grosche, Dusseldorf Germany
57? ebay sale by g.mu6 Germany in 2009
57? ebay sale from Czechia by jropeman10 in 2014
59 (?) for sale on Ebay by g.mu6 Germany in 2014
83 for sale by Eric Totman US in 2009
94 B b on reciever. Before and after restauration by Rick Ita coll. Robert Adams, Atlanta US
9x for sale by gebrauchte-blasinstrumente.eu feb 2016
107 107 on middle valve casing and on all the valves coll. John C. Hallam UK
valves and valve casings marked 10, 11, 12 for sale by Steve Ward, Quinton, US in 2015
13, 14 A, 15 on valves for sale in July 2014 Prague aukro.cz
valves marked 16, 17 A, 18 coll. Dieter Grosche, Dusseldorf Germany
15, 19, 19 on valves '1930's?' from coll. Eric Totman
28, 29, 30 on valves and valve casings for sale in Jan 2015 Ebay.de blechjeck13
52, 53, 54 on valves for sale Dec 2014 Ebay.de dr.m._de
79, 80, 81 on valves '1920- 1930' coll. M.Rippert, Germany
for sale from Russia
for sale from Oslo, Norway
A13 on backside of first valve '1925' sold in 2010 from Augsburg, Germany
coll. Sven Grosch Germany
for sale 2013 at Nastroje Hudebni, Czech Republic
ebay sale by g.mu6 Germany in 2009
for sale by Czech seller
nr ? sold in 2011 through Lauritz.com Danmark
'ca. 1925' coll. Phil Holcombe, St Pete Beach Florida
Arigra L.Tůma Praha coll. Robert Adams, bought Eric Totman US
no nr. ebay sale by g.mu6 Germany in 2009
Arigra Extra US sold by Quality Brass, Iowa US in 2011
sold through Szabar, Czech, in 2012
B on receiver ebay sale by g.mu6 July 2013
ebay sale by g.mu6 Oct 2013
new reciever, double brace, one missing 2013 and again Feb 2014
for sale from The Netherlands
for sale in 2008 by Tony Bingham UK
dated 'around 1940' by the Museum coll. Germanische National Museum, Nurnberg
coll. Ptuj Ormož Regional Museum
from picture gallery Yorkmaster
coll. D. Antonio José Ortega Bernal, Spain
'1895/1905' coll. Musikinstrumenten-Museum des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung Berlin
for sale in 2014 on Tablica.pl
45? no Arigra name on bell or elsewhere for sale april 2014 Ebay Germany
'1920 - 1930' coll. M.Rippert, Germany
A for sale July 2014 Ebay.de g.mu6
for sale September 2014 Aukro.cz Oldrich50
for sale September 2014 Aukro.cz bibi09
for sale September 2014 Aukro.cz Vodnikovic
for sale Okt 2014 Ebay.co.uk g.mu6
for sale Nov-Dec 2014 Ebay.com g.mu6
for sale Feb-March 2015 Ebay.com by andrejkocis
for sale June 2015 Ebay.es lasercorte
for sale Aukro.cz nov 2015 Jika1234
Engraved 'Tužkař I-22' for sale Aukro.cz April 2016 jankov1234
for sale Aukro.cz May 2016 modryslonik
for sale Aukro.cz November 2016 dave194
for sale Aukro.cz Januar 2017 profesor615
for sale Aukro.cz June 2017 KarelHrdy
for sale Oct 2017 olx.com.br
coll. The Met, gift from fam. Strauchen 2016
for sale ebay Jan 2018 gmu6
found at www.trumpet-history.com/VirtualMuseum.htm
sold through Auktionshaus Mehlis
coll. Schloss Kremseg

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