ChileHeadEd

Hello, I have been searching for info on an instrument and found your site, I assume this would be the best place to find experts with the knowledge and resources to help me!

I just got a "vintage" trumpet and have been trying to find out some info...I have not been able to find a scrap of information on the internet!

Any information you could provide would be helpfull!

It is a silver plated Trumpet, it is inscribed:
All American
Odell Co Boston
serial# 012597

the mouthpiece is engraved:
The Vega Company
165 Columbus Ave Boston

and the case says WM Frank Chicago under the lid

it seems to be a pretty small trumpet, i searched all over it for any other engravings for size etc. and could not find anything else.

Anyone here know anything about these?

Thanks for your help!

Ed

MFfan

Welcome to the forum. Maybe you could post some photos at some time?
The All American is likely a "stencil" , a horn made on contract by some US or foreign manufacturer for sale under the retailer's name of choice. I would suspect Odell was a music store in Boston at the time. The Vega company made fine trumpets in Boston. Vega Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here is an interesting Wiki that does not mention Vega much as a brass maker, but mostly strings. It does mention Thompson and Odell.
A Vega mouthpiece could have been easily obtained in Boston for this trumpet, probably before 1930? I saw another entry that Vega bought out a string business in 1904 and named their brass, woodwind, etc business as the Standard Instrument Company.

The best site Horn-u-copia has no mention of the All American tradename in their data base. Also , Wm Frank does not have All American associated with it as a company tradename so I would doubt the case was original, but who knows?

http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb/f140...pet-22033.html (Boston Vega Trumpet)
Here is an interesting old thread on the Vega company.

The pedigree on whoever made All American horns is more difficult.

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