7/12/2023 0 Comments Conn 8d elkhart l series![]() Recently we took a trip to Chicago to visit our son and I dropped off at Anderson Silver Plating in Elkhart this bell and two other silver plated horns to have the silver removed. The rest of the horn appeared to be all NiSi. We speculated that the bell was silver plated and used on her horn because Conn, at the moment of building the horn, had no NiSi bell tails. ![]() I knew it was brass because inside the bell flare where the hand rests had worn through the plating. As a part of the cost for the work and parts I took the bell tail from her horn in exchange. Parts that would normally be nickel were brass, sometimes mixed on the same horn.Ī couple of years a go a friend who owned a Korean War serial range 8D decided that she would like to convert her horn to a rose brass first branch and detachable bell tail. I’ve owned military marked and Korean war time 28d’s that had a hodgepodge collection of brass and nickel crook parts, etc. I’ve heard that during the Korean War, nickel was in high demand, apparently for the war effort and occasionally C G Conn would substitute plated brass parts on a horn that was otherwise NiSi.
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