Revere mouthpiece

[travisd]

Found this relic on the shelf. No idea where it came from. Stamped "REVERE" and "BB". Would Revere (the silver company) have ever produced mouthpieces?

Revere BB Tuba Moutpiece

Never played it (pic above is AFTER cleaning it... most of the plating is gone, there's some pretty ternacious verdigris on the exposed brass rim)

[the elephant]

"Revere" was a stencil used by the Sorkin Music Company (a depression-era store in Philly and later New York) that bought many things from Martin. I know they stenciled Martin saxes and trumpets. I don't know who made their mouthpieces, but they apparently sold a LOT of trumpet pieces back then.

I do not know whether YOUR Revere is a Sorkin Revere, and even if it is, I don't know if it is a Martin-made mouthpiece.

Let's see what Michael Keller has to say about this. Hey, @windshieldbug!!!

(He knows a bazillion pieces of information about stuff like this.)

[bloke]

Quite a few of the old budget-line mouthpieces (post WWII) were made in European countries that were struggling to get back on their feet.

The above-typed sentence is based on having come across some which were stamped as to their origin.

[windshieldbug]

Sorkin stenciled lots of stuff, even had some of it imported from England and Germany, so it's anyone's guess...