Grant,

The bell is engraved:
Made by
C G CONN
Elkhart IND"

Thanks Grant, you've helped. When re-inspecting the bell I DID find
the serial number, slightly below and rotated 90 degrees clockwise
(as viewed from the top) from the Conn label, it reads:
PATD. DEC 8, 1914
119954
LP
Eb
V105

There is no evidence of a Quartermasters stamp. The horn is lauquered.

With the serial number of V105 now known the question remains when,
during the period of 1914 to 1921 was this instrument made? Could
the "V" be a clue. I know that after 1974 Conn used a two character
alpha prefix for decade and month on some of their brass instruments
but have seen no mention of the use of letter prefixes for their
earlier instruments.

Jack




>At 06:48 PM 2/9/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>The first thing I wanted to find out was it's date of manufacture. I
>>just spent 30 minutes inspecting it carefully and COULDN'T
>>FIND A SERIAL NUMBER. The serial numbers on my Conn
>>C-Melody, Baritone and Bass Saxes are all easily found and
>>deeply stamped but for the life of me, I can't find one on the
>>Sarrusophone.
>
>The Conn contras were mainly made for the US military - they're often
>stamped with the quartermaster's emblem. Most sarrusophones I've seen are
>stamped somewhere near the bell.
>
>>Question #2 - I first found (and joined) another Yahoo
>>Sarrusophone group named "Sarrusophone2" which appears to
>>be defunct. I posted this question there but have recieved no
>>response(s). Waht's the history and "poop" on this "other"
>>group? Seems strange to have two groups devoted to this rather
>>obscure instrument.
>
>Not defunct, just not very active ;-) That group is mine. The reason
>there are two is that they were started on different services, before
>everything was bought up by Yahoo. The contrabass list (see
>http://www.contrabass.com/pages/list.html) also discusses sarrusophones
>from time to time.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Grant