This is a remarkable find in good condition. The seat it is on is right up against the fireplace,,,that's how bid this horn is. 26 INCH bell with nice engraving with Peter Edwards Co-Inc Boston surrounded by a stylized Fleur des lis engraving. The thing is complete with exception of the one finger bolt that holds the bell on. There are two on the piece ( one shown ) and I have included the picture with the one missing. I have put pics of biggest dings. The valve components are free and the small pipes in the valve area are all very good! Shipping will be expensive, best to come pick it up. But if you want it shipped I will have professional do it and that will depend on that charge and where you live. Thanks for checking us out. Pete
I have seen these sell for 5000 and since I do not know much about this I put it high and am entertaining offers.
Shipping Fee may be lower or higher as I could not figure out how to make ebay let me make it where I can customize to buyer location.
I found this info on an online site called brasshistory dot net Peter Edwards Co. Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
1891 Peter Edwards (1885-1942) emigrates from Poland
1906 Edwards is naturalized (public record)
1916 Peter Edwards, musician, #7 Arcola, Roxbury (dir)
1918 Edwards at #7 Arcola St., Boston; working as a mechanical
inst. maker for Vega Co., #155 Columbus Ave. (draft)
1920 #7 Arcola, musician for Boston opera (census)
1922 Peter Edwards Co. Inc., #224 Tremont, Boston; Peter
manager, Nellie Anderson treasurer (dir); incorporated in
April with $10,000 capital, directors John C. Cronin,
Nellie Anderson, Peter Edwards & Walter J. Anderson
(Music Trade Review)
1922 Edwards & Sander, #226 Tremont, room 42, brass band
instrument repairers (directory) [the Boston Musical
Instrument Co. is at #228 Tremont, room 6]
1923 musical instrument makers, #224 Tremont (dir);
instruments have patent #123,069 on the valves in
reference to Vega
1925 #224 Tremont, room 11 (directory)
1927 they suffer water damage in the store from a fire; they are
a Holton band instrument rep., #226 Tremont (MTR)
1930 now at #665 Washington, Edwards president, Anderson
treasurer; Edwards is listed in the census as orchestra
musician, #15 Sunnyside St, Boston
1940 Peter Edwards Co. Inc., #665 Washington
1941 same address
One report states that Edwards made a set of Eb Alto and Bb
Tenor “Trombets” (bells forward) at the request of fellow
Aleppo Shiner Band members Louis Harlow Sr. & Jr.;
Edwards was a horn player for the band; the tenor horn
had serial #14,233