These are stock books recording the delivery of woodwind and brasswind instruments into stock by named workmen with dates, a brief description of each instrument, and the date of the sale to named customers.
Dates for each volume vary from instrument type to instrument type. Different instrument types had different serial number sequences, dispersed throughout the volumes. As a rough guide, the records begin in 1869 and end during the early 1940s.
The depression badly hit Rudall Carte (along with other instrument makers). Brasswind making ceased in 1939. The books show that the instruments were virtually unsaleable in the 1930s: some new instruments were "sold as secondhand" after being in stock for years.
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