This is what the seller writes about this lamp. (I tried to keep the formatting as close to original as possible\u00a0with regards to bolding and relative size.) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Beveled tone holes, soldered<\/strong><\/p>\n Wire key guards<\/strong><\/p>\n Gold tone inside of bell<\/strong><\/p>\n Hefty “keel” on bottom (see pic)<\/strong><\/p>\n Firmly attached to heavy wooden base (but could be easily removed)<\/strong><\/p>\n Very good condition with no dents. Keys, springs, etc. seem fine. Pads not good.<\/strong><\/p>\n Neck with microtuner–turns freely. No dents. Ends are round. This neck may not be for this instrument, but finish appears the same and it was stored with it. Lamp was not taken apart to try the neck on it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Lamp works fine if you want to use it that way. We didn’t know if the sax could be repaired and restored for use as a musical instrument. The only damage is a pencil sized hole in the bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n If restored, pad replacement goes without saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n FINISH:<\/span> Silver plate OR silver colored finish of some sort. It cleans with a silver cloth–but only to a degree. It has an overall nice patina to it, and looks really good from a distance, but on closer examination, the finish is pretty poor. See all pictures and you will see the damage. Looks really good if just glancing at the pictures. The finish is gone in many areas and\/or looks very spotty.<\/strong><\/p>\n Neat instrument! Makes a great display if wiring is removed. Or a great lamp with the right shade! Looks good, even with the finish damage!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have read this far, perhaps you know something about vintage saxes. We welcome your expert knowledge about this instrument! We welcome all questions and comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks for looking!<\/strong><\/p>\n This item was found when we sold our small town family owned music store.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n There’s only one problem of course: the neck isn’t original. Hell, the neck isn’t even a Martin. Martin didn’t make microtuner necks for their Handcraft saxophones. The neck is most likely from a Conn New Wonder.<\/p>\n The horn is a stencil of\u00a0a Martin Handcraft phase 2. It has the bevelled tone holes of the phase 2, and is lacking the front F key. Interestingly enough, or perhaps coincidentally enough\u2014I’m not up on Martin stencils enough to say for sure\u2014even the serial number fits within the phase 2 manufacturing period. For more information and lots comparison photos of the Martin Handcraft, check out the Martin Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m going to go out on a limb here and take a wild stab at how this poor thing ended up as a lamp. The neck\u2014which BTW, should have looked like this<\/a>\u2014got lost. Someone tried to replace the missing Martin neck with that of a Conn, but that didn’t work out too well. Since the horn was unplayable, the sax was then turned into a lamp. The Conn neck then got stored with the lamp until it ended up on eBay.<\/p>\n The bidding for this vintage Martin alto saxophone-turned lamp, plus bonus Conn neck, is to start at $149.00. At the time of writing there were no bids yet on these items. The auction is set to end on March 29.<\/p>\n Even if you don’t want\u00a0the lamp, perhaps you need a neck for you Conn. Or if you’re looking for a lamp, you’ll turn around and sell the neck again if you don’t need it. Either way, it’s not a bad deal.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Left-Side-With-Neck.jpg?resize=426%2C800\" "\\"Left")
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Vintage Alto Saxophone LAMP (sacrilege!)<\/h3>\n
Conn or Martin stencil we believe<\/span><\/h3>\n
“Professional Model”<\/h3>\n
“Made in Elkhart”<\/h3>\n
“58043”<\/h3>\n
“LP”<\/h3>\n
includes neck with microtuner (original?)<\/h3>\n
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