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Musical Instrument Sale Friday 15 June 2012 11:00 Gardiner Houlgate 9 Leafield Way Corsham Wiltshire SN13 9SW Gardiner Houlgate (Musical Instrument Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 Lot: 7 Five Neapolitan bowl back F. E. Olds & Son 'The Parisian mandolins in need of restoration, Ambassador' gold lacquered one cased; together with a pear tenor saxophone, case shaped mandolin, case (6) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Lot: 2 Lot: 8 Ukulele, labelled Artist Ukulele by Jen Electronica P-73 electric Roberti, no. 9346 (a.f) piano, stand Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £15.00 - £30.00 Lot: 3 Lot: 9 French silver plated alto Early 20th century mahogany saxophone, the bell inscribed cased two row xylophone, 29" Rene Guenot Paris, case; wide together with an Earlham metal Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 flute, no. 8706666, case (2) Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 4 Lot: 10 Neapolitan mandolin, labelled G. Grafton acrylic alto saxophone, Puglisi Reale and Figli..., the no. I2739, case open peg box above a 24 fret Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, boxwood strung bowl back and spruce top with mother of pearl inlaid scratchplate Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 5 Lot: 11 Gold lacquered four barreled Selmer Mark VI gold lacquered French horn, case (new/old stock) alto saxophone, made in France, Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 circa 1957, no. M.71051, case Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 Lot: 6 Lot: 12 Gold lacquered four barreled Thirteen various Beatles Vinyl French brass horn, case (new/old LPs, to include Rubber Soul, stock) Help, Revolver, Sergeant Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band etc Estimate: £70.00 - £120.00 1 of 38 Gardiner Houlgate (Musical Instrument Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 13 Lot: 19 Rare Luttbeg Soprani piano Boosey & Hawkes '78' silver accordion, circa 1930, case *This plated cornet, Salvationist silver accordion belonged to the plated soprano cornet, Zenith vendor's father, who played in brass cornet and a Blessing long the Coventry Light Orchestra model cornet, all cased (4) from 1935-1950. The lot is Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 accompanied by a framed photograph of the orchestra* Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 20 Lot: 14 Two Lark brass cornets, silver The Viceroy Accordion plated Lark cornet and a Melody Melodeon, with twelve bass Maker silver plated cornet, all buttons, natural wooden finish; cased (4) together with another melodeon, Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 box (2) Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 21 Lot: 15 Highland bagpipes with Hohner Alpina piano accordion blackwood pipes and tartan bag, with twelve bass buttons, white case finish; together with a Grundig Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 TK25 reel-to-reel tape recorder (2) Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Lot: 22 Lot: 16 Pennsylvania gold lacquered Early 20th century five string tenor saxophone, no. 5869, case banjo, stamped J.F. Dawson in Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 the heel plate, the skin 9" diameter Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 Lot: 23 Lot: 17 Couesnon & Co. Super- Thomas Machell mahogany monopoly silver plated alto cased dulcitone, 30.5" wide saxophone, no. 53024, case Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £60.00 - £100.00 Lot: 24 Lot: 18 Four various musical instrument Six various copper and brass stands (4) mounted bugles (6) Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00 Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 2 of 38 Gardiner Houlgate (Musical Instrument Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 25 Lot: 31 Neapolitan mandolin labelled Keech banjolele banjo, serial no. Carlo Ricardo Napoli no. 1001, E7327, the 17 fret ebony case; together with a tenor banjo fingerboard with decorative pearl mandolin, case (2) inlay, attractive boxwood and Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 ebony inlaid birdseye maple sides, the skin 6" diameter, case Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 26 Lot: 32 Banjo mandolin labelled Paul Late 19th century Neapolitan Capitaine Brest, the skin 7 1/4"; mandolin labelled Michele together with a contemporary Maratea... Allievo di Vanaccia... banjo mandolin and a banjolele Napoli 189., the rosewood bowl with foliate engraved back, all back with boxwood inlay, spruce cased (3) table and faux tortoiseshell Estimate: £60.00 - £100.00 scratchplate with foliate mother of pearl inlay, case (a.f); together with an early 20th century banjo mandolin, the open peg box above an ebony fingerboard with Lot: 27 dot position markers, the skin 11" Flat backed octave mandola diameter, case (2) labelled Solterno, Roma Italia no. Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 1357, case Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 Lot: 33 Bach brass trombone, made in the USA, case Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 28 Banjo mandolin with decorative mother of pearl fretboard back and sides, case Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 Lot: 34 Olds brass trombone, with single rotary valve, case Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 29 The Gibson H-1 mandola, serial no. 11117, made in USA, hard case Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 35 Rare Lachenal concertina tuning bellows, four slot version with mahogany ends and five-fold bellows, original box Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 30 Neapolitan mandolin, 17 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, boxwood strung rosewood bowl back, the spruce table with faux tortoiseshell pickguard, case Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 3 of 38 Gardiner Houlgate (Musical Instrument Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 36 inlay above a mother of pearl and Rosetti Rambler melodeon, with abalone 24 fret fingerboard, four bass buttons and red fluted rosewood bowl back and pearloid finish spruce table with extensive Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 foliate pearl inlay to the sound hole, pickguard and edges, case (a.f) Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 42 Yamaha YBB-321S silver plated Lot: 37 double B flat four valve tuba, ser. Contemporary Neapolitan no. 008740, case mandolin labelled Catania Estimate: £350.00 - £500.00 Mandolines Estimate: £70.00 - £100.00 Lot: 43 Holton Collegiate brass Lot: 38 trombone, case; together with a Quantity of various piano sheet Yamaha trombone, case (2) music Estimate: £20.00 - £40.00 Estimate: £10.00 - £20.00 Lot: 44 KT brass fanfare trumpet, case Lot: 39 Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Custom Sound 700A/150P.A. mixer amplifier; together with a pair of Calne cabinet speakers Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 45 Besson Westminster silver plated Lot: 40 cornet, ser. no. 325167; together Late 19th century Neapolitan with a Boosey & Hawkes Limited mandolin labelled Umberto Regent silver plated cornet, Ceccherini, Naples... no. 2447, Yamaha YCR-233S silver plated dated 1891, also bearing a cornet, ser. no. 001905 and a Clifford Essex repairer's label, Lark brass cornet, all cased (4) the shaped peg box with foliate Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 pearl inlay above 24 fret ebony fingerboard with pearl inlay, rosewood bowl back with boxwood strung inlay, the spruce Lot: 46 top with foliate mother of pearl Vega Pro II plectrum banjo, 22 inlaid tortoiseshell pickguard, fret rosewood fingerboard with case mother of pearl slot inlay, bound Estimate: £90.00 - £120.00 back and sides housing a nickel resonator, skin 11" diameter, case Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 41 Good twelve string Neapolitan mandolin labelled P. Cosentino... Valletta, the large open tortoiseshell peg box with pearl 4 of 38 Gardiner Houlgate (Musical Instrument Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 47 Lot: 53 Vega Artist style plectrum banjo, The Windsor Premiere model 3 the closed peg box with foliate five string banjo, the shaped mother of pearl inlay above a 22 closed peg box above 22 fret fret rosewood fingerboard with fingerboard with pearl position pearl slot inlay, flame maple back markers, boxwood banded back and sides, the resonator 11" and sides, the resonator skin diameter, case 10.5" diameter, soft case Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £60.00 - £100.00 Lot: 48 Lot: 54 Ibanez two point mandolin, the Gibson Mastertone PB250 asymmetric closed peg box plectrum banjo, ser. no. 59842, above 24 fret rosewood the shaped closed peg box fingerboard with dot position above 22 fret rosewood markers, burst finish body with fingerboard with pearl slot black pickguard, soft case position markers, bound Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 mahogany back and sides, the skin 11" diameter, hard case Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 49 Aria M300BS mandolin, the 24 Lot: 55 fret rosewood fingerboard with Early 20th century five string dot position markers, tobacco banjo, the shaped closed peg burst bound body with faux box above 22 fret ebony tortoiseshell pickguard, soft case fingerboard with dot position Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 markers, nickel cased mahogany resonator, the skin 11.5" diameter, case Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 50 Aria AM300BS mandolin, made Lot: 56 in Korea, ser. no. 20028074, the Jose Alvarez Dulcet ukulele; asymmetric peg box above a 24 together with Juan Gomez fret rosewood fingerboard with ukulele, case and Sylvestri dot position markers, honey burst Cantania ukulele (3) body with faux tortoiseshell Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 pickguard Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Lot: 51 Harmony Roy Smeck tenor Lot: 57 banjo, the closed peg box above German two row Anglo a 19 fret rosewood fingerboard concertina, with twenty-one with pearl block inlay, the buttons on pierced mahogany resonator skin 11" diameter ends, six-fold bellows (a.f) Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 52 Early 20th century pear shaped Lot: 58 flatback mandolin, the closed peg C. Jeffries Anglo concertina, box above a 20 fret rosewood stamped C. Jeffries Maker 23 fingerboard with dot position Praed Street London, with forty- markers, rosewood back and nine buttons on pierced metal sides and spruce top with ends, six-fold bellows, leather box tortoiseshell scratchplate, case; Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 together with a Russian Doma, soft case (2) Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 5 of 38 Gardiner Houlgate (Musical Instrument Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 59 Lot: 65 Elkhart 300 series gold lacquered DEG Dynasty melophone, no.
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    5-208 5. Magnetic pickups 5.16 Patents und inventions 5.16.1 American Patents (selection) 1890 435679 Breed: the first guitar pickup? 1890!! 1927 1933299 Vierling: piano-pickup (PU) 1929 1839395 Kauffman: tremolo (vibrato-unit) 1929 1838886 Tuininga: violin-HB 1930 2027073 Vierling: piano-PU (see also 1933299) 1931 1906607 Jacobs: piano-PU 1931 1915858 Miessner: piano-PU 1931 1978583 Kentner: piano-PU 1934 1941870 Severy: synthesizer 1934 2020557 Loar: guitar with structure-borne-sound-PU 1934 2025875 Loar: guitar with structure-borne-sound-PU 1934 2089171 Beauchamp: Rickenbacker Frying Pan, Horseshoe-PU 1935 2026841 Lesti: PU w/out permanent magnet 1935 2119584 Knoblaugh: stacked HB w/out permanent magnet 1936 2087106 Hart/Fuller (Gibson): Charlie-Christian-PU 1936 2170294 Dopyera: National Hawaiian guitar, Blade-PU 1936 2152783 Beauchamp: Rickenbacker Electro Spanish Guitar, Horseshoe-PU 1937 2175325 Sunshine/Epiphone: "Oblong Pickup" 1938 2145490 Miller (Gibson): further development of 2087106 1938 2241911 Kauffman: motorized tremolo for steel-guitar 1939 2262335 Russell: HB w/horseshoe-magnet 1940 2261358 Fuller (Gibson): retrofit-PU 1940 2294861 Fuller (Gibson): retrofit-PU 1944 2455575 Fender/Kauffman: Solidbody guitar w/PU 1946 2455046 DeArmond: PU "Type-1000" 1948 2542271 Alvarez: Piano-HB 1948 2567570 McCarty (Gibson): PU within the pickguard 1948 2686270 Ayres: piano-HB 1949 2557754 Morrison: Solidbody guitar w/PU potted in wax, 6 cylindrical magnets 1950 2573254 Fender: Telecaster-precursor 1950 2612072 DeArmond: PU w/6 adjustable