1964 Selmer Mark VI Saxophone & Mouthpieces
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GUEST:
Well, this is a Selmer Mark VI, and, uh, I bought it my freshman year at college. I bought it in New York City. I had started a band my senior year in high school and carried that through college. I bought it in the fall of '64 and I paid $365.
APPRAISER:
It's a Selmer Mark VI alto saxophone made in Paris. The serial number dates it to about the middle of 1964. Uh, vintage horns, such as this, are more desirable than even the best horns that are made today. The Selmer Mark VI from the 1960s is kind of the, uh, Holy Grail of, uh, of saxophones.
GUEST:
Oh, wow.
APPRAISER:
The condition is spectacularly good. This horn is 99-plus percent original lacquer, which is hard to find. In today's market, this horn would sell for $6,000, at least.
GUEST:
Wow.
APPRAISER:
And you've got three mouthpieces here, a Brilhart metal duck bill, they call that.
GUEST:
Right, right.
APPRAISER:
The original Selmer C-star hard rubber.
GUEST:
Yup, yup, yup.
APPRAISER:
And another Brilhart that happens...
GUEST:
Yeah, that was a tenor.
APPRAISER:
This is a tenor mouthpiece.
GUEST:
Sometimes I would play tenor.
APPRAISER:
Between the three of them, there's probably about $700 worth of, uh, vintage mouthpieces.
GUEST:
Wow. Wow.
APPRAISER:
And the total value of the whole package is, uh, about $6,700 at retail.
GUEST:
Very nice.
APPRAISER:
Thank you for bringing it in.
GUEST:
Appreciate it.
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