Holton B-Flat Cornet: Museum Object and Cultural History
Holton B-Flat Cornet: date made: 1921. maker: Frank Holton & Co.. Object Name: cornet.
The object in the museum catalogue
This cornet was made by Frank Holten & Co. in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1921. It is a B-flat cornet, Holton-Clarke model serial #57825, made of silver plated brass with 3 piston valves.Inscribed on the bell:
HOLTON-CLARKE MODEL MADE BY Frank Holton & Co. ELKHORN WISC.
This cornet is named after prominent American cornet player and composer, Herbert Lincoln Clarke (1867-1945). The Clark archival collection is at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1921
- maker: Frank Holton & Co.
- Object Name: cornet
- Physical Description: brass (overall material)
- Physical Description: silver (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 15 in x 4 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 11.43 cm x 16.51 cm
- Measurements: overall: 15 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 16.51 cm x 11.43 cm
- place made: United States: Wisconsin, Elkhorn
- ID Number: MI.70.05
- catalog number: 70.05
- accession number: 287589
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Erickson
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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