![]() The stock books give details of the date, model (e.g. It would appear that common serial number sequences may have been used for Besson production in Paris and London up to the point where the London factory passed into British ownership and separated from the French Besson firm (1895). The manufacturing details are written in French (even the later entries), also sales details for British and export customers. ![]() Fewer Besson slide trombones survive form the period 1875 1895: not all bear serial numbers, but those which do correspond to the stock book entries. In the case of the valved instruments, the serial numbers of surviving instruments (stamped on the piston casing) accord with the stock book entries. Two sequences of serial numbers were used, one for valved instruments and one for slide trombones. ![]() These record the instruments as completed: a brief description, the date added to stock, plating, engraving, case, date of sale and the name of the purchaser. What remains in the B & H archive is incomplete but nonetheless informative. The books have not survived in which Besson & Co recorded the instruments ordered and the allocation of serial numbers (a series analogous to the Distin & Co "Work Shop Order Books" can be assumed).
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