Silvertone was the stencil name that was sold by Sears Roebuck during the first half of the 20th century. Usually the Silvertone saxophones were made by American horn makers like Buescher and Conn. However, German manufacturers Hammerschmidt, and even J. Keilwerth, made the occasional horn for Sears Roebuck.<\/p>\n
When I first saw this Silvertone sax on eBay, I had to check it a couple of times to make sure that I was indeed seeing a Hammerschmidt stencil horn. The photos were very small, and the seller had written that the\u00a0sax was made in the U.S. I even emailed the seller to confirm a country of origin, and he insisted that it came from the\u00a0States. (In the meantime I’ve seen a few of these and have collected their images. See below<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The eBay ad\u00a0itself provided no real information about the sax, other than to say it had a U.S. patent number, but didn’t\u00a0give it. The serial number is 06XX.<\/p>\n This alto does have enough features of a Hammerschmidt however, that it is easily identifiable:<\/p>\n \u00a0Source: eBay.com<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a>**Please Note**<\/p>\n Because the of the size of the various vintage saxophone galleries on my site\u2014and the lack of their searchability\u2014I have created a separate area of my site called Bassic Sax Pix<\/a>. Bassic Sax Pix allows you to find what you\u2019re looking for quickly and easily. I have therefore stopped updating the individual\u00a0Hammerschmidt and Hammerschmidt Stencil\u00a0galleries here, and have copied all of the information already contained in these galleries over to the\u00a0Hammerschmidt galleries at Bassic Sax Pix<\/a>.<\/p>\n New\u00a0Hammerschmidt and Hammerschmidt stencil horn\u00a0images continue to be added regularly to the galleries at Bassic Sax Pix. If you are looking for photos of\u00a0Hammerschmidt stencil horns, I recommend you jump to the bigger, and more searchable galleries<\/a>. Fear not however, I will continue to add more stencil names to this list as I find them. They will just link to the new galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Silvertone was the stencil name that was sold by Sears Roebuck during the first half of the 20th century. Usually the Silvertone saxophones were made…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n