Well if your are, and you missed out on the last auction, you have another chance to pick one up. A seller on eBay is selling this baby…
Source: kenquien
kenquien seems to be a man of few words. This is what he offers up with regards to information, about this rather unusual find:
Antique Saxophone automated Mortier or other band organ 36 inch DeCapp ?
Automated Saxophone from an old Belgian or Dutch Street organ or Band organ. It has Frans De Mayer, Klamper 29 Antwerpen etched on the front of the horn. Nice piece if you need one.
On Aug-08-12 at 17:15:33 PDT, seller added the following information:
Someone asked me about a scratch on the bell. It was just a sliver of paper which fell from a paper cutter nearby. I was too lazy to move and clean it before I took the picture. I just uploaded some new pictures to show how it really is.
Here is the question that prompted the additional photos:
Q: It appears that the bell has a somewhat large cut across it. Has the bell been cut, or is that just something on it that doesn’t show well in the pictures?
A: Not at all. The horn has been sitting in my office next to a paper cutter. That was just a piece of paper trimming stuck on a spider web. I will upload a new photo in a day or so. Thanks for your interest, Ken
Aug 06, 2012
Source: kenquien
Now I don’t know how many of these European, dance hall organs are still kicking around. Or for that matter, how many of them are missing a saxophone. But maybe, just maybe, this one could fill the hole in the front of your big-ass dance organ. 😉
I’m still trying to get my head around how these organs were transported from town to town prior to WWII. Would you want to be a roadie on this crew without the technologies of today? It looks like a lot of hard, manual labour to me. These things are big!
Photography by: Thijsie Source: Flickr
Getting back to the sax on eBay at the moment, kenquien has a reserve on the oddity from days gone by. At the moment there are 7 bids on the sax, with the high bid being $76.75. However, reserve has not been met.
If you’d like to take a crack at bidding on this horn, you only have today and a bit of tomorrow left. The auction for this 36″ long, Belgian, Frans De Mayer, dance hall organ saxophone, ends on August 10.
Update: This Frans De Mayer dance hall organ saxophone found itself a new home. By auction’s end 8 bids had driven the price up to $207.79 US.
I don’t know if that’s a good price or not, but it certainly is in-line with the Mortier Electrosax that was up for sale just a few short months earlier. It sold for $300.00.