Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

Well, this is a Selmer Mark VI, and, uh, I bought it my freshman year at college. I bought it in New York City. I had started a band my senior year in high school and carried that through college. I bought it in the fall of '64 and I paid $365.

APPRAISER

It's a Selmer Mark VI alto saxophone made in Paris. The serial number dates it to about the middle of 1964. Uh, vintage horns, such as this, are more desirable than even the best horns that are made today. The Selmer Mark VI from the 1960s is kind of the, uh, Holy Grail of, uh, of saxophones.

GUEST

Oh, wow.

APPRAISER

The condition is spectacularly good. This horn is 99-plus percent original lacquer, which is hard to find. In today's market, this horn would sell for $6,000, at least.

GUEST

Wow.

APPRAISER

And you've got three mouthpieces here, a Brilhart metal duck bill, they call that.

GUEST

Right, right.

APPRAISER

The original Selmer C-star hard rubber.

GUEST

Yup, yup, yup.

APPRAISER

And another Brilhart that happens...

GUEST

Yeah, that was a tenor.

APPRAISER

This is a tenor mouthpiece.

GUEST

Sometimes I would play tenor.

APPRAISER

Between the three of them, there's probably about $700 worth of, uh, vintage mouthpieces.

GUEST

Wow. Wow.

APPRAISER

And the total value of the whole package is, uh, about $6,700 at retail.

GUEST

Very nice.

APPRAISER

Thank you for bringing it in.

GUEST

Appreciate it.