The last Adolphe Sax saxophone recorded in the Selmer Paris archives was sold in 1944.Its likely that production of Adolphe Sax instruments ceased at the onset of WWII sometime after May of 1940.
Any Adolphe Sax instrument sold after this date was most likely already made or assemble from pre-existing parts. For example, the record shows that all of the recorded Adolphe Sax instrument sales between 1940-1941 were from instruments already manufactued between 1931-36. There is a fairly detailed record of these instruments recorded in a log book in the Selmer archives in Paris up to 1936 through serial number 1364. Instruments manufactured after 1936 range in serial number from 1350-3600. The log book shows the serial numbers jumping around quite a bit for the SelmerAdolphe Sax saxophones. Even so, its possible from this record to assemble a basic serial number chart for these instruments. By comparing early verses later instruments, it becomes clear that some Adolphe Sax Selmer saxophones were assembled from the old Adolphe Sax tooling and other were put togther using parts and tooling from the Selmer St. King Trumpet Chart Series Was MadeThe first series was made in 1937 with serial numbers 24xxx and the second in 1939 with serial numbers 27xxx. ![]() Sometimes the serial number will be on both the handslide and the neck receiver. Vintage King Trombones, H.N. White Era will often have the serial number on the tuning slide, but not always. You can find more helpful information on the Conn Loyalist Website. Here is a website dedicated to King tromobones from the H.N. We do keep an archive of sold instruments on our website here and try to photograph the serial numbers.
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