The engraving 'Revelation' is a rare find on Holton saxophones. 'Some thoughts about Holton models and years of production That is a great result and at the same time evidence of the precision of the Holton Serial Number List valid for brass only applied to the years (1917)/1918 - 1931. Purely arithmetically the result is 44 or a serial number of 63343, applied to march 2nd.

250 cornets that corresponds to an average of 21 per month. What we can differenciate from the chart (Range of numbers: 63,300 to 63,549) is: Holton produced in 1928 ca. Looking up the number in Gordon's list we find the year of manufacture: 1928. 'The other instrument was my friend's Holton cornet, #63323, which was shipped on 3-2-1928.' First was his C-soprano #18319 which was shipped out of the factory 11-18.1924. 15-2007 great info about two documented instruments. Looking up the number on one of the known Holton charts on internet (copyright: Gordon Cherry) we come to 1920 as year of manufacture.

Here is a trumpet 'Revelation' model SN #70080. We do know now, that Holton used separate sets of numbers for woodwind and brass from 1918 to 1931.įurthermore we have (within these categories) separations between different types of brass on the one hand and between saxophones and other woodwinds on the other.

Holton trumpet serial number list