Index card reads: Copper, with brass undecorated bell garland, keys, mouth-pipe, sleeve of crook and mouthpiece. Seven keys. Complete with B flat crook and tuning bit. A silver plate applied to the bell has engraved on it a bird with outspread wings and (on a surrounding band) the motto "Nec temere, nec timide"
423.213-71
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