Headings: Brass, flute, reed, 3 Aug 1895-20 Dec 1899
Lists date, serial number, description and model, date sold, customer.
This is divided into three sections exactly like the Boosey & Co Band Instrument Stock Book 1882-1885. Each section gives year by year: stock at January 1 (ordered by model number), instruments previously listed but not completed by December 31 (ordered by serial number), new stock throughout year (ordered by serial number)
Sales represent brass band, military and orchestral instruments, with some models used in more than one performing medium. Sales are worldwide, so are not necessarily typical of British musical practice. The clerks who wrote the stock book rarely gave full details, and it is likely that many of the customers apparently private individuals were in fact dealers or agents. Many of the dealers or agents were overseas firms such as Wm A. Pond & Co in New York, Kelly & Walsh in Shanghai, and S. Marshall & Sons in S. Australia. Research is necessary to identify the locations of other dealers whose purchases are recorded in the stock books. Nevertheless, from looking at individual sales, it is clear that many of the more exotic instruments were destined either for North America or for India.
New stock added: Brass instruments 47298-47844, Aug-24 Dec 1895
New stock added: Brass instruments 47845-49515, Jan-Dec 1896
New stock added: Flutes 15010-15238, Jan-Dec 1896
New stock added: Reed Instruments 12468-12783, Jan-Dec 1896
New stock added: Brass instruments 49516-51532, Jan-Dec 1897
New stock added: Flutes 15239-15568, Jan-Dec 1897
New stock added: Reed Instruments 12784-13177, Jan-Dec 1897
New stock added: Brass instruments 51533-53850, Jan-Dec 1898
New stock added: Flutes 15569-15723, Jan-Dec 1898
New stock added: Reed Instruments 13178-13539, Jan-Dec 1898
New stock added: Brass instruments 53851-56289, Jan-Dec 1899
New stock added: Flutes 15724-16061, Jan-Dec 1899
New stock added: Reed Instruments 13540-13854, Jan-Dec 1899
3Aug 1895-20 Dec 1899
Band Instrument Stock Book
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