The style - there's no maker's mark anywhere on the horn, so bit of a mystery! Work so far: inital clean, repaired a broken brace, pulled the valve section to access the leadpipe for the dent work... I'll try to be better about posting ;)

omg you're amazing - thank you for bringing such wonderful weirdness to the work 🥰

An older Reynolds! The fit between the valve ports and outer slide tubes is extremely tight and difficult to wick solder into. Might've been a 'Friday' horn at the factory ;)

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