- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cavalry trumpet in two pieces, mouthpiece missing. [MJD 29/9/2008]
- Geographical reference
- England London
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Maker William Shaw
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1823
- Date collected
- By 1968
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1968
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Rubber Plant, Process Beaten, Process Spun, Process Decorated, Process Incised, Process Nailed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 702 mm bell piece, Length: max 700 mm broken piece, Diameter 123 mm bell, Width: max 67 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1968.23.1
- Research and responses
Full name of Donald Baden-Powell source: Donor Index cards, Antiquities Department, Ashmolean Museum [L.Ph 23/3/2004]
Note that according to William Shaw's 'Harmonic Trumpet' Eric Halfpenny The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 13. (Jul., 1960), pp. 7-13. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0072-0127%28196007%2913%3C7%3AWS%27T%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P William Shaw ceased making instruments by 1823, either Baines is wrong in the note, or his date has been mistranscribed?
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