Worth fixing up if you want to keep it and have a cool vintage horn around.but if your inclination is to have a tech fix 'er up and turn it and make yourself a ain't gonna happen. It's market value is probably only around $400usd in good playing and physical condition. These were the second-shelf Bueschers, much like the Indianas were to Martin or the Clevelands were to King. ![]() Much better than a budget asian brand of today. This is, by today's standards, at least an intermediate horn (they didn't use such labels back then). ![]() Some strange things pop up now and again in relation to some of their horns serialed in the 55,XXX-140,XXX range. (Matter of fact, had you not written 20A, I would have said what you have there IS an Aristocrat). ![]() Their other stencils sported much more pared-down keyguards, for instance. I agree it's likely a '50's horn at the may well be '40's.interesting that "Elkhart by Buescher" engraved 20A and 30A's actually sported a more Aristocrat-esque appearance than 20A/30A's which were not branded "Elkhart". ![]() Unlike Conn or King, nobody has ever bothered to do a survey of Buescher serial # sequences for their Elkhart By Buescher or stencil line of horns.so that gives no explanation, unfortunately. The horn's #, according to all regular online Buescher sequences, would place it pre-1925.while as Bruce and TNH both correctly note, the details and design clearly are NOT of that era whatsoever. This is another one of those oddball Buescher serial #'s.
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