Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Henry G. Lehnert” 

Nickel plated – silver
ca 1860s
Length w/MPC removed: 10 in; Bell Rim: 4.5 in
Wind Instruments – Brasswinds – Cornets / Cornopeans

Engraved on the bell in a circle: LEHNART  PHILA.

Henry (Heinrich) G. Lehnert, Philadelphia 1860’s Cornet (TARV – top action rotary valves) with three string rotary valves pitched in the key of Eb.  Henry Lehnert arrived in Boston with his brother Carl, from Saxony, Germany around 1860. According to “The New Langwill Index,” he worked for either E.G. Wright or for Graves & Co., before joining Freemantle to establish the ‘Henry Lehnert & Co.,’ and moving to Philadelphia. By 1866 he partnered with B.F. Richardson as “Richardson & Lehnert.” According to Lloyd P. Farrar, Lehnert vies with Isaac Fiske for innovative pre-eminence among earlier American brass instrument makers. This cornet comes in an original wooden coffin box, a lyre with three flat tabs and an extra crook to play in Bb.

Resource: Waterhouse, William. “The New Langwill Index.” London: Tony Bingham. ISBN: 0-946113-04-1 (pg. 231)