Copper bell with silver trim, brass valves and silver tubes ca. 1939 Length: 18.5 inches Wind Instruments – Brasswinds – Trumpets
Engraved on bell: DEARMAN / WORNELL / MODEL / FOREIGN / PAT. No. 473818; Engraved on valve #2: BRIT. PAT No 473818. Serial Number DW1021
Dearman is the trade name used on jazz band horns made in the Czech Republic pre-WW II. Wornell was a brass instrument inventor who held the patent on the unique valves used on this trumpet.