(Pete) In 1928, Selmer purchased the Adolphe Sax plant. The first bit of these horns were made with Adolphe Sax parts and look like a horn from Adolphe Edouard Sax. The remainder of the horns looked like a Selmer Super Series horn -- I'm fairly sure that I have a pic of one with the "Cigar Cutter" octave mechanism.

These horns are currently valued as much as a Selmer Super Series horn, too, but they were initially sold at a lower price than a "true" Selmer Super Series horn.

A lot of these horns have two serial numbers. One is generally a low number and might be the Xth horn from the Adolphe Sax plant after the Selmer buyout. The other is generally a higher number and probably correlates to the Selmer pro-model saxophone serial number charts.

  • upper portion front view upper portion front view
  • upper lower stacks upper   lower stacks
  • tone hole details tone hole details
  • tone hole pad details tone hole   pad details
  • soloist scroll shank mouthpiece soloist scroll shank mouthpiece
  • socket neck fastening screw and lyre fastening screw socket  neck fastening screw  and lyre fastening screw
  • serial no. 1340 serial no. 1340
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  • s-l1600(9) s-l1600(9)
  • s-l1600(9) s-l1600(9)
  • s-l1600(9) s-l1600(9)
  • s-l1600(8) s-l1600(8)
  • s-l1600(8) s-l1600(8)