

For $3000 you can usually get an old Fox bassoon (from the same era, 60's. They would not use a serial number in Roman Numerals, and you. Josef was forced to work as an instrument tuner for a time while the rest of the family was exiled to Nauheim in the the state of Hesse where other instrument makers from Graslitz (now called Kraslice) had already been relocated.Submitted 6 years ago by saxosoon. After nearly 50 years in business and just after World War II in 1947, a government commission from Prague under the so-called 'Benes decree' appropriated and liquidated the Puchner business into the Czech State Enterprise, 'AMATI'.

During World War II, the company continued to make musical instruments although mainly for export but it was also partly turned over to war production for the manufacture of airplane parts.

Shortly after the annexation to the German Reich, many employees of the Puchner Firm were called up by the German military. As a result of the Munich agreement of September 1938, the Czech Republic, occupied by a majority of ethnic Germans, was annexed by the Third Reich. The Bohemian part of the 'music-belt', represented by the chief cities of Graslitz and Schonbach, belonged to the newly-founded Czechoslovak Republic. Serial number on the boot joint is 11326, the serial number on the other 3 joints are 11294, includes original case in good shape, there is no Bocal, all keys look to be there, overall looks in good shape, I just recently purchased it from an estate sale this past week, it has been sitting for a few.Īfter the loss of World War I, the multi-national state of Austria-Hungary, of which Bohemia was a part, broke up into a number of national states.

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