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After 1935 Buescher started making what it called its "Gladstone" style instrument cases; it claimed they could easily be confused with the finest personal luggage. If you're the kind of traveler that notices that kind of thing.
They are in fact good looking cases; solid, wood-framed and decently padded for an instrument case of the time. Modern instrument cases are much uglier, but generally offer better overall protection.
The purple plush lining seems to have been the standard, but you could custom-order the materials used in the case, so you may run across cases with a green or other color linings and linings made of different fabric materials.
This unit was designed and built for cleaning friction drive hose and power reeler gearboxes on a stacker/ reclaimer at a Port Facility. These gearboxes are typically high wear metal producers due to the friction clutches which are very difficult to move due to the high viscosity of their oil. Oil can be restored to new condition with the 3um elements in this unit.
Carpe diem! Brand new standing clock with rust finish. The clock face features a small planet picture of a man basking in the sun holding a sun reflector under his face. Clock diameter ca. 9'', total height ca. 30''. Uses this image. See all other pictures possible in this model.
We met with our architect and builder today to review the first draft of our custom home. We are building 3 miles from my office and 20 minutes from Paulette's.
The Model 254 did not feature the bottom sprung "pin" valves Buescher used on earlier Custom Built horns. Instead it used pretty standard top-sprung star-guide valves.
The action on this horn was excellent, though - a really slick, solid short valve throw and very finger-friendly.
Note the octagonal valve caps and buttons. The valve cap bottoms were octagonal, too. They were made of very heavy brass.
Note the bell's rim. There is a flat brass ribbon behind the roll in the rim that runs around the circumference of the bell. Buescher started using this method of forming the bell rim in the early 1930s, possibly in 1930 when the "New Aristocrat" trumpet was introduced. The bells on earlier horns - trumpets and saxophones - had rounder, thicker rolled rims and lacked the reinforcing ribbon.
Here and in the following pics also note the thick, grooved flat brass ribbon used on the third-valve finger ring.