It apparently features (as it does not sport a "buffed-down" appearance) its original silver plating, a 10" bell diameter (roughly the same wide angle - less pancake than 11" or 12"), and just about (if not THE same) bore size as many of the "modern" instruments. It's heavily engraved, and the valves/casings have all been beautifully rebuilt.
It is NOT next on my list of restorations/sales, but is coming up.
I'm not willing to discuss it now, but believe I have come up with a very nice way - in the main taper of the instrument (discarding someone's old main slide extensions) - to reconstruct it as a modern pitch (A=440 to 442) instrument.
I'm not posting any more here (unless someone really wishes to chat) about it, but this is just a heads-up that - sometime in the future - I'll probably be starting a thread in the "Repairs" forum covering this instrument...
...and (again) I'm not interested in keeping it. I already have an extremely nice compensating euphonium and kaiser baritone that (mostly, other than bureaucrat-destroyed church gigs/quintet engagements/polka-band jobs) are only played at home...
...but one of you euphonium collector/historians (YET, who would like to be able to play such an instrument within an ensemble/congregation of "modern" instruments) might eventually end up with it.
